Adaptive Strategy for Air Pollution

The author and his colleagues have pursued a complex path along which they have glimpsed some vistas where investigations might lead to a sharper definition of an adaptive strategy. They have learned that this strategy will involve full participation by government, industry, science, and the public. It was seen that, as the Daddario Subcommittee noted, ''Pollution abatement is affected by so many factors that no one existing institution can have control over all of them.'' The author agrees with the view of this Subcommittee (Daddario, l966) that ''A consortium of public and private interests will be necessary to accomplish what - in very real terms - may be a marked change in the American way of life.''