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XX Preface

albeit poorly, with inadequate housing, schools, police, and care of the ill,
insane, and aged; it can also subsist with a primitive water supply. The
ultimate determinants for survival are its food and air supplies. Conversely,
even were society to succeed in providing in a completely adequate manner
all of its other needs, it would be of no avail if the result were an atmosphere
so befouled as not to sustain life. The long-term objective of air pollution
control is to allow the world's population to meet all its needs for energy,
goods, and services without sullying its air supply.