Justice Douglas speaks on ecology
By STEVE FRITZ
Kansan Staff Writer
Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas implied Monday that the recent Massachusetts law which states men cannot be required to fight on foreign soil in an undeclared war would be held constitutional.
Douglas' comment on the law's constitutionality came during the question and answer session after his speech on ecology at the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC).
"When Truman was President, we (the Supreme Court) ruled that the seizure of steel mills was
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unconstitutional," Douglas said. "If they can't seize steel mills, how can they seize you?"
Douglas spoke to approximately 700 people on the danger of man becoming extinct.
"Experts," Douglas said, "only give man two more decades if pollution is not stopped."
Pollution is not a capitalistic product, Douglas said, it is found wherever there is man. The answer to pollution, he said, is conservation.
Conservation is both a local and an international problem, Douglas said.
"Iin Hawaii," he explained, "there is radioactive air pollution from the United States, Russia, and Red China.
"The end of the ocean's usefulness for everything except a highway will come about in 10 years if things are not changed."
put in concrete containers and dumped into the ocean, Douglas said.
Radioactive waste material is
"These materials have a half life of 500 years," he said. "How long will the concrete containers last?"
Disappearing fish resources, oil spills and radioactive waste dumping are all factors in why countries like Peru and Ecuador are claiming 200 mile territorial ocean limits. Douglas said.
"We are exploiting the natural resources of the United States as countries once exploited their colonies," Douglas said. "The question is do we need to destroy regions of our country to make other people rich?"
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"Thethey should,rather,look at the net national product and include the irreplaceable loss of our natural resources,"he said.
The error of those who exploit the machine and destroy natural resources is to brag of the gross national product, Douglas said.
Many laws have been passed to curb pollution, Douglas said, but often local pollutors have an alliance with local law enforcement agencies.
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LONDON (UPI)—The railroad station at Stratford in East London has put up a sign reading—in Chinese—"Please State Your Destination."
A British Rail official explained: "There's rather a large Chinese population and many don't speak English. Sometimes ticket clerks asked them where they were going and couldn't be understood. On one occasion, tempers flared and a clerk got punched in the eye."
"Free flowing rivers are gone forever," Douglas said. "Detergents and other waste materials are polluting our water to both sight and smell."
Thus, Douglas said, not much progress is made to stop the polluting.
Detergents which contain phosphorous present the largest danger to the crystal blue water in this country, Douglas said.
"Twenty years ago, when I was in India," he said. "eight out of ten babies died before they reached one year of age."
Over-population is another problem pushing man toward extinction, Douglas said.
The increase in public health has changed the picture, he said. Most children born today will survive.
"Because of the decrease in infant mortality, all efforts must
be redoubled to curb over-population," Douglas said.
Many animals native to North America are close to becoming extinct because of pesticides, bounties, and destruction of natural habitats, he said.
"What was a nightmare 10 years ago is now a reality," Douglas said.
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