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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 21 Feb 1979, p. 6

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wetorloo chrentcle ' M published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner 125 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. ~ address correspondence to Waterico office: 92 King St. South, Waterioo, Ont., telephone 806â€"2830 Waterico Chronicle office is located on 2nd floor of the O.W. Sports building opposite Waterico Square. Parking on King Street or in Waterioo Square. Open Monday to Fnday 9:00 a.m. to §:00 p.m In addition, each of these new chemicals contains impuriâ€" ties about which we know absolutely nothing, Dr. Chant stated â€" not even what most of these impurities may be, let alone their effect on human life and the world as a whole. But now, in a single lifetime, defences built up over untold generations have peen rendered useless. They have been bypassed, by a host of new hazards. Dr. Donald Chant, viceâ€" president of the University of Toronto and founder of Polluâ€" tion Probe, stated in a recent interview that there are now about 150,000 manâ€"made chemicals in the world, and new ones are being added every year. "Yet we know precious little about most of them,"" he said. ‘"Some of them may be as deadly as DDT." And however these substances are used, in the end they are dumped, or escape into the environment, filtering their way into the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. > So, should civilization give up on ‘progress?‘ Should we go back to the caves? No. But we can and should demand greater m...urity from our business and scientific communiâ€" ties. For a million years or so, human beings have been deveâ€" loping their bodily defences against the earth‘s natural haâ€" zards â€" things like smoke, dust, disease, decay, and various kinds of predators and parasites. Those who were less able to survive didn‘t. Those who were better equipped to survive passed on their strengths to their descendants. Unfortunately, in the present situation, each individual cannot simply look after his or her own safety. We are too dependent on the actions of others. We should expect â€" we should demand â€" that those who produce the new chemicals will test them for risks, beyond any doubt, and will have enough sense of responsibility to control what they use. The Belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwablad", recently pubâ€" lished the observations by Professor V. Werck on the subâ€" ject: What is behind this world‘s seemingly evolutional selfâ€" destructiveness. His observations said, ‘"We live in a posâ€" sessed world. Everybody knows it. Nobody believes it." To the editor Noting the "mad armaments race,"" terrorism, poverty, wars and other problems, he declared: "It would not be surprising if suddenly madness were to break out and leave mankind in a dazed and stunned condition." In this writer‘s opinion we have been in this condition ever since World War I. The Professor then cites one of his reaâ€" sons for saying this. Some twenty centuries ago (the apostle) Paul warned in his letter to the Ephesians (6:12). ‘"Because we have a wresâ€" tling not against blood and flesh, but against the governâ€" ments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heaâ€" venly places." The professor then continued: Before he died. former U.N. Secretary General, U Thant predicted: Mankind has 10 years left to solve the world‘s greatest problems and if they don‘t, chaos will follow quickly. Again everybody knows it. Nobody believes it A similar warning of impending destruction was sounded in Noah‘s day before the flood came that engulfed the entire earth Again. everybody knew it. nobody believed it. except Noah and his family. The unbelievers perished with the flood The inscripti the UN building in New York s th F natio(r?\:,‘g‘(:;;g '\:)inllogerteainlv r:lndle':'gj:‘dgm:nt(:m:nag":lans Recognise any familiar faces in this old photo of a school outing. They are students and teachers from peoples and set matters straight respecting mighty nations._â€" Winston Churchill Public School, Waterloo. O Give up on progress Everybody knows it, nobody believes it subscriptions: $10 & year in Canada. $12 a year in United States and Foreign Countries. Publisher: Paul Winkler Editor: Terry James established 1854 And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spÂ¥ars into pruning shears. They will not dift up sword, nation against nation neither will they learn war any more. From our back pages s L"{“"”'”"’m7 Again, everybody knows it. Nobody believes it. Our behaâ€" viour today is no different to that in the days of Noah. Only fools think otherwise. W.D. Pope NOT MY FAULT) s m . e *%/

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