RT Book, Section
A1 Costa, Daniel L.
A1 Gordon, Terry
A2 Klaassen, Curtis D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1158504063
T1 Air Pollution*
T2 Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th edition
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259863745
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158504063
RD 2024/04/18
AB The  second  half  of  the  20th  century  was  marked  by  remarkable  changes  in  how  the  public  viewed  its  relationship  to  the  environment.  In  the  19th  and  early  20th  centuries,  national  pride  and  prosperity  in  Western  countries  were  often  depicted  as  an  expanse  of  urban  factories  with  smokestacks  belching  opaque  dark  clouds  of  industrial  effluent  into  a  neutral  blue  sky.  But  the  price  of  that  unchecked  human  progress  led  to  several  air  pollution  catastrophes  highlighting  the  profoundly  detrimental  impact  that  reckless  prosperity  could  have  on  the  environment.  These  images  of  “modern”  life  gradually  gave  rise  to  public  outcry  for  governmental  action  to  protect  air  quality  and  public  health—a  challenge  to  industry  that  had  been  focused  on  economic  growth  alone.  The  ensuing  50  years  of  regulatory  legislation  in  the  United  States  and  Western  Europe  along  with  cost  efficient  innovations  by  the  private  sector  have  remade  this  industrial  image  in  most  technologically  developed  nations.