Sunday, November 2, 2003
SULFUR, SULFER EVERYWHERE — AND HOW THE ACID RAIN DOETH FALL
A country vocalist croons that we “burn fossil fuel and get it back as acid rain.” A popular conception is that our forests are being depleted to manufacture paper, and that the remainder is dying because of acid rain; that our lakes are becoming acid laden, killing fish and other aquatic life. This is based in large part on the mineral titration theory, which was the key to environmentalist alarms regarding the acid rain threat during the 1980s. As quoted by Chetly Zarko in a 1992 article The...
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