European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse At Oyer Hungary hundreds demonstrated last april against High Levels of pollution caused by cars. Eastern Europe ecological disarray by Mike fe1nsilber associated press environmentalists see a Chance that new leaders in Eastern Europe will move against some of the world s worst pollution a the Region s dead forests poisoned Farmland sooty air and Rivers so toxic they can to even be used in Industry. Despite other pressing problems facing the new governments of Czechoslovakia Poland East Germany. Hungary and Romania environmentalists note that ecological dismay was one of the factors that drove the old communist regimes Oul of Power Quot pollution was part and parcel of the system that molested the people in their daily lives a said Jeffrey Leonard of the world wildlife fund author of several books on Eastern Europe s pollution problems in the Quot no More lies speech delivered upon Tak my office As president of Czechoslovakia on Jan 1. Playwright Vacvav Havel said. Quot we have Laid waste 10 our soil and the Rivers and the forests that our forefathers bequeath cd to us. And we have the worst environment in lha whote of Europe today adults in our country die earlier than in most other european countries a environmental conditions Are so bad they affect the very possibility of having economic growth Quot said Jessica Tuchman Mathews of world resources Insl Lule a research organization. Quot How does a country rebuild a shattered Economy when it can to breath its air Lili its soil or drink its Waler Quot experts ale these examples a according to the polish Academy of sciences a Quarter of Poland a soil May be too contaminated for Safe farming. 0 Hungary s comm Nigl run environment ministry estimated that one in 17 deaths was due to air pollution a and pollution is even worse in Poland. A in Poland s Rivers. 95 percent of the water is unfit Lor human consumption and 50 percen its unfit even Lor mud serial use so toxic it would destroy the equipment according to researchers at the world resources ins Lutc of Washington a while the United states requires twice As much Energy than the japanese to produce a Dollar s Worth of Gross National product Poland requires four Mes As much As the United Stales and most of its Energy comes from soot producing Brown coat according to the Bat Feffe memorial int Itule a research outfit a United nations data suggest that in four of the six East european countries a Quarter to a third of the forests show signs of dying from air pollution. A in the Katowice Region of Southern Poland according to a publication Grams must slew Down in Somo places because the tracks have been corroded apparently by acid rain. Said Richard Trok director of the Eastern european environmental affairs program of the conservation foundation Quot people there Are saying we be had enough. Our health is being threatened our lungs damaged our forests destroyed our children harmed by Lead and heavy metals in the environment Quot the question now environmentalists say to whether East europeans facing the new Phenomena of unemployment and inflation will be Temple to put environmental concerns aside As they struggle to remodel their economies and their political structures Quot they be going Mohave to make some extremely hard said Piroh. Quot a lot of their Industry especially in Poland is antiquated. Rather than trying to place pollution control equipment in it it might be better to shut it Down i entirely and Sven Lually replace it Wilh modern equipment that is Energy and resource efficient end does t pollute As much. But that Means unemployment. Is society willing to accept that Cost i just Don t William Chandler senior scientist Wilh Battelle a Pacific Northwest laboratories and he is confident the poles will make the sacrifices necessary now to build an Energy efficient and environmentally clean Industrial Plant Lor its future. These Are some of the most sophisticated scientists m the world a he said of polish environmentalists a they have a major Opportunity and they know it Quot Chandler said when he visited Poland m the l9b0s environmentalists were willing to no their lives to show him How bad conditions were even when the polish government banned Solidarity m pulled Back Ironi cracking Down on the polish ecology club during the detente of the 1970s, when the West delivered Nehre plants to Eastern Europe said Leonard Quot i interviewed a to of i Host engineering firms and they lord me that they provided the Basic proud Elton technology but the authorises did t want the pollution control technology that went with it they did t want to pay Ter but now. 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