Detrimental Effects of Chlorine Byproducts

From Love Canal to Columbia Beach to "Agent Orange" to the "ozone hole" to a myriad of other phenomena, the detrimental impacts on human health and environmental safety of chlorine byproducts gradually raised public awareness of the dangers associated with the industrial use of chlorine (Daniel, Reddy, Stober, and Olson, 1991, pp. 665-670; Daniel, Olson, and Stober, 1991, pp. 32-39). As public awareness of the hazards associated with the use of chlorine and chlorine byproducts has risen, so too have pressures for the discontinuance of the use of chlorine and chlorine byproducts increased in intensity (Amato, 1993, pp. 152-154). As frequently occurs in such cases also, a backlash directed at the opponents of chlorine has also occurred. Some of this backlash is from industrial interests whose economic well being depends upon the continued use of chlorine (Taubes, 1993, pp. 1580-1583). While such attitudes may be short-sighted, they are at least understandable. Some of this backlash also derives from scientific disagreement (Taubes, 1993, pp. 1580-1583). Both the uses of chlorine and chlorine byproducts and the undesirable outcomes attributed to such uses are frequently complex and difficult to tie together. Scientific disagreement in such cases is not unusual, and so long as such disagreement is not simply a part of an orchestrated campaign by industrial uses with an economic ax to grind, such di

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which rouses high passions on all sides of the issue, there are serious economic and political implications of such contamination that should be soberly considered by all factions. These implications must be considered on both a short-term and a long-term basis. In the short-term, the loss of jobs, loss of industries, and high program costs are factors that will often outweigh the potential long-term effects of environmental contamination. Thus, for most politicians, short-term expediency may be expected to prevail over long-term imperatives. Once the effects of environmental contamination begin to be manifested in the forms of shortages of fresh water, increased incidence of disease, new forms of disease, food supply shortages, and so forth, however, the political outlook of the general public will shift. Unfortunately, however, this shift will occur over the long-term, and, by the time it does occur, the environmental damage from contamination likely will have already occurred. Reversing the effects of contamination at this latter time will prove to be both more difficult and more expensive that would be the case if the problems were effectively addressed over the short-term (Berger, 1985, p. 173). Environmental
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