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Environmental health, as a concept, contains elements of both environmental protection and public health, although the scope of environmental health does not encompass the totality of either environmental protection or public health. An important element of environmental protection, as an example, is the development and implementation of public policy to protect sensitive ecological areas. The policies designed to protect areas such as Prince William Sound in Alaska from damage by oil spills is one illustration of an attempt at environmental protection. Protection of the environment in such a context, however, does not have a direct relationship to the health of human beings (so long as petroleum contaminated sea life is not consumed). Thus, policy initiatives designed to protect the natural environment where direct relationships to human health

1 2are not strong are not included within the concept of environmental health.

Laws designed to insure the purity of ground water provide another example of environmental protection. In this instance, however, the link to human health is stronger. Pollute

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a cap on industrial development in the sun belt states in the United States, and in the western and Atlantic provinces in Canada. The third response category involved the generation of increased amounts of electrical energy from nonfossil fuelburning plants. In effect, this response is based on an increased use of nuclear energy, because large scale solar energy technology is from 10to20 years away from perfection for application. In North America, the same forces which 17 demand action on the acid rain problem are often in the forefront of opposition to nuclear power development. Other countries, notably France, have developed their nuclear generating capacity in a cost effective and in an environmentally safe manner ("With Nuclear Power to Spare, France Keeps Pushing Its Nuclear Program," 1984). This approach to the acid rain problem is a viable one; however, its implementation in either the United States or Canada would require (1) a restructuring of the electric utility industry, and (2) a reeducation of a huge segment (perhaps a majority) of the public. The last of the four response categories involved, in effect, the shutting down of the western half of the country in the United States, and all provinces
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