ABSTRACT
The public is often worried when penalties are small, and is encouraged to believe that improvements in air quality are under way when heavier penalties are imposed. Air quality standards are a bureaucratic crime against the people. They bear little resemblance to what is or can be done in the circumstances to control or abate pollution. Earnest anti-pollution workers complain that the arguments of the last section serve only to undermine the most effective tool which administrators and politicians can use to get restrictions imposed. Pollution control may be much more important at one factory than at another because of a higher population density nearby or because the agriculture surrounding it is more sensitive or because the weather and lie of the land made dense pollution more frequent. The revolutionary viewpoint in anti-pollution legislation must strike much deeper than the well-understood argument between capitalism and socialism.
