Luc America's Lake Sea of Azov more 'we all breatne rougnly tne that, equality society ends....
of achievements of our the Pameres pean a mess terhe gihed ul tic zuull Ccululy• LIC OCSL. LIlC 'Cleanest vironment.' Unwilling to allow the majoriDURING the American election campaign Aral Sea Caspian Sea the throuen ine uneemocranc dan Unable to admit to the dire conseRegardless of the and inefficiency Cucunes a nicuilu. TONH of olanl. secrecy is maintained: government These include Baikal to produce cord for heavy advice that the lake would suffer SCYCIC DUluUUl tory was nmisnea, á melnoa was China, THE SOVIET UNION 'Actually, the Aral, and probably the Caspian as well' to England, made unusable our cauclaly rules from petroleum of this tion, veil of nillion years ok * A factory was built on Lake despite scientific Meadow and have Before the fac- plan Zanu lhal was Wilal pearance and consistency of pea soup'.
Socialists consoled themselves with the belief that the workers' states - Russia, and in Eastern ecological questions much more serious/y.
A new book from Pluto Press, Boris Komarov's The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union, shatters that claim. ADRIAN YEELES reviews the book. we have already lost the Azov, Lake Baikal An area of 1.45m square kilometers West Switzerland and the Benelux countries - has been discovered for making the cord The factory went into produchowever. because that was what the plan prescribed. The ra.
diant orb of Siberia', twenty-five polluted.
VLCI DYCIUL USG DW&I were •rainca lucy werc turlcu lul o nowane vucr ducav crod pasture woul been the right choice stipulated arable land Europe - take equivalent Germany Italy *The hay harvested from the looder fuel, would yield as much energ. as the plant itself.
*At Krasnoiarsk a huge pile shortage of freight car continued trees (leaving semi-desert in their Teloc dl coldi Be usain tn the tags because received only rotten wood Socialist Challenge 20 November 1980 These things take place because the Soviet people and the woro al arae arre keot li norance. "The composition of the air, of our drinking water and sea water is a state secret', writes Those who protest about the crisis 'äre accused of anti-Soviet tendencies ohe aSakas are the "Sakharovism' which same thing tentacles of the oureaucrausea stale reacn inı every area of Soviet life The Hydrological Plannin Agency (HPA esponsibl hydroelectric power SLaTLCI LIC the Main HToloaca Constructio managers were majoi White Sea Canal, Ohe Moscow Volga ectric Power Plant Rybinsk Hydroelectric have UCcL immortalised ArDOVCHLSV chipelago.
Today the director HPA's cívil institute is still calle commander and its projects are prepared in secret. Power be done? For Komar problem cannot be tackled so long as the Ul Cocil ponuca suualon remain the country's leaders is one observing the development of th eco They have neither the desire nor the meios to taike aav serol since those : steps s could lead to major changes economy morcover. m шис Шана ccl e alote • ne systel power.
•For society the situation can about a major ecological project made LWU LULC "leading' comrades, while th "strategic" reasons that guide their se lection of the project :re. main unknown to millions whos nves will be substantlally alicelc try fully slackened the reins of centralised planning, it could be possible to solve ..many acute problems o ecology...
'However, egally.... Truth It is not political motives, not the dictates of reason - - 11 18 g very air we breathe that forces u tọ understand: if we want to su vive we must know the truth. And ren uto ocners.
Forty years ago Trotsky in his o he roione ot orae nas shown now deeb •aila's suc cessors have dug that grave.
The Destruction of Nature in the thomarov is puntished by Soviet Union Boris Pluto Press at £2.95. It is available fron The Other Bookshop, • Bius pper Ni, LONCOH pIus Extracts book
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claiming that plants and animals cause 80 per cent of the world's pollution. ignorance seemed to capitalism's disregard for nature; to business' natural environment that has left North 'American writer Barry Commoner, 'the ap-