AE AUDUBON BULLE TIN 
‘POLLUTION IS WINNING 
ITS WAR AGAINST SOCIETY’ 
Address to Stockholders at the Annual Meeting 
the Ecological Science Corporation, Miami, 
June of 1968. 
Harold P. Koenig, Chicif Executive Officer 
cking as it may seem, our country is confronted with the basic fact to- 
that pollution is winning its war against our society. We are being 
aminated by many sources of pollution—an unbelievable number of 
ch either are unknown by our society, are not being treated or are 
ig treated in a manner that accelerates other causes of pollution. 
Ecology, in the next ten or twenty years, may well become the most 
ular of all sciences, a household word to those masses who today are 
rant of both the word and its meaning. 
Your. Corporation is now engaged in and seeks to expand its activities 
1e fields of treating and controlling: water pollution; air pollution; gar- 
>, refuse and waste disposal; and on-site generation of needed ecological 
ices. 
For many years the recuperative powers nature provides us have been 
juate to treat the many contaminating effluents discharged to receiving 
es of water, air and land. Today nature cannot accomodate these con- 
nating effluents for several basic reasons: 
(1) The available supply of air, land and water has remained relatively 
constant, while our population has increased significantly. 
(2) Our population is becoming more concentrated in a relatively small 
amount of our total geography. Today 70% of our population re- 
sides on 10% of our land. By 1980 over 90% of our population will 
reside in vast megalopolitan societies that will become chronic 
disaster areas unless something is done about pollution. 
(3) The amount of waste generated per person is increasing daily. As 
our society becomes more affluent, it has more material goods to 
dispose of—both weight and volume. And these materials are more 
difficult to dispose of than previously. This Ppyramiding waste is 
increasing at a rate upwards of 20% a year on a volume basis. 
(4) Technology has advanced in nearly all operations that result in 
discharges to water, land and air. Unfortunately, this technology 
does not help nature maintain the type of ecological balance we 
all seek and must have to survive. Rather, current technology has 
in many instances aggravated pollution abatement activities. 
5) As we find specific pollution tragedies upon us as a result of the 
above factors and others, we tend to panic into emergency solutions 
of such problems. Such solutions now tend to be on a crash basis— 
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