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BOOK REVIEWS 
ENERGY, ECOLOGY, 
ENVIRONMENT: 
A FRAMEWORK FOR 
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 
by Gerald Garvey 
W. W. Norton, 1972 
235 pp, $8.95 
While essentially this is a techni- 
cal book (not to be read easily at 
one sitting), serious students of the 
environment and organization li- 
braries ‘will find it a useful addi- 
tion to their resources. A glossary 
of terms helps the reader towards 
a greater understanding of the 
technology of the situation. 
A generous word must be said 
in behalf of the chosen figures and 
photographs. Especially impressive 
are the details of the decimation 
of the forest which once covered 
Cadiz Township in Green County 
in Wisconsin in 1831. Fifty years 
later less than half of the forest 
remained, and by 1950, only 3.6 
percent of the original forested area 
remained in timber. 
There is the oft printed photo- 
graph by Litton Industries of smog 
shrouding Manhattan Island. A 
most unusual aerial photograph 
by the Environmental Protection 
Agency shows seeping oil in the 
Santa Barbara channel surrounding 
the oil well in the center of the 
picture. 
The author argues that our 
frontier culture has contributed 
heavily to the waste and arrogance 
which so characterizes our nation. 
The blight is everywhere from 
East Chicago to the strip mines of 
Appalachia, from the pollution of 
Pennsylvania to the stench and 
ugliness and pollution of Salt 
Creek in DuPage County. (It has 
never ceased to fascinate me that 
a “silent majority” would so long 
endorse a war in Vietnam which 
wastes 40,000 barrels of oil a day, 
and sits content while the Presi- 
dent of the USA vetoes a water 
quality bill to clean up the nation’s 
foul streams and lakes.) 
In chapter after chapter, Pro- 
fessor Garvey — who teaches at 
Princeton University — scores the 
wastefulness of our present indus- 
trial practices: from strip mining 
to the inefficiencies of fuel extrac- 
tion, from our imperfect oil tank- 
ers which foul the seas, to our 
electric power plants which re- 
leased 12 million tons of sulfur 
oxides in 1966 and which is ex- 
pected to triple in 1980 unless the 
government strictly enforces new 
controls for our health. The book is 
a project of the Center for Inter- 
national Studies at Princeton 
University. 
—Raymond Mostek 
GRZIMEK’S ANIMAL LIFE 
ENCYCLOPEDIA: VOLUMES 
7 and 8, BIRDS I and II 
by Bernard Grzimek 
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972 
579 and 620 pp, $30 each vol. 
These two volumes are among the 
first published of what will be a 
13-volume set covering the animal 
kingdom. It will be the most com- 
prehensive and well illustrated 
