Environmental Successes

A Breakpoint Commentary by Chuck Colson

"Novak sites one simple example: replacing the horse with the car. Before the car, city streets were covered in tons of manure—twelve thousand pounds a year from every one of the 3.4 million horses on America’s urban streets. All that waste product led to toxic results in congested urban areas. On hot, dry summer days, when horse hooves and wagon wheels pounded the manure into dust, the dust blew into the air, fell everywhere, and was breathed and ingested by humans. Now, that’s pollution."