The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 25

9 9 THE DAILY DISPATCH, Moline, Illinois June 22, 1984 25 Acid rain inflicts a heavy toll on Europe COPENHAGEN "'They are melting away like sugar candy," says a Dutch architect, referring the erosion of Europe's historic buildings, statues and other monuments acid rain. And also in jeopardy are forests, lakes, rivers and other natural As is well known by the principal killer is sulfur dioxide, which is contained in industrial smoke that rises Into the upper atmosphere and returns to Earth as acid in rainfall. The compound's murderous impact is widely deplored by almost every European leader. But apart from a good deal of pious rhetoric, very little is actually being done to counteract the poison largely because the measures required would necessitate a drastic transformation of the economy. Over the centuries, stone works of art were protected from the elements with applications of oil and wax.

Today, however, such simple methods of conservation can- License to wed By BIGRITTE GRUE Timothy M. Ramirez, Davenport, and Marylue Albert, East Moline. Richard M. Frerker and Sharon A. DePaepe, both of Rock Island.

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In West Germany, for example, the famous Cologne cathedral has been so devastated that its bas-reliefs are barely recognizable. The same kind of damage is happening to several of London's celebrated landmarks, among them the Tower and St. Paul's Cathedral. THE DESTRUCTION of medieval limestone churchs on Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic sea, has been such that a law was recently passed in Sweden making it mandatory to burn only low heating oil. The Swedes blame West Germany for the problem, claiming that the pollution originates in the factories of the Ruhr Valley.

Swedish environmental groups have organized the protest campaigns, including a drive to get schoolchildren to send postcards to the West German government. The West Germans, in turn, contend that Czechslovakia and East Germany are responsible, especially for the damage being caused to the natural landscape. Forests, which figure significantly in German folklore, are in serious shape. If the blight continues at the present rate, experts estimate, most of the fir and spruce trees in the Black Forest of West Germany will be dead before the end of the century. The alpine forests of Bavaria and other areas are equally in jeopardy.

Though the communist countries of Eastern Europe are being criticized, they themselves are suffering. The Erzgebirge Mountains between Czechoslavakia and East Germany resemble a battlefield, their evergreens denuded of bark and needles by the acidity. ACID RAIN is produced when smoke and gas emitted by factories, power plants, oil refineries and automobile exhausts stream into the atmosphere. Their sulfur and nitrogen components combine with oxygen and moisture to form sulfur and nitric acids, which fall in rain. The problem is not indigenous to Europe.

It is a major source of friction between Canada and the United States, the Canadians alleging that their lakes, rivers and forests are being ruined by acid rain originating south of the border. Most of the evidence available here confirms that Czechoslovakia is a major culprit. Its industries rely heavily on soft brown coal, which has a high sulfur content, and little is being done to impose emission controls on its factories. Antidotes are expensive, and regimes like those of Czechoslovakia and the other East European nations are poor. But protest movements are developing in those countries as well as groups in Poland and East Germany agitate against pollution with such slogans as "ecology before The West German government, responsive to public opinion, has initiated measures requiring power plants to install "scrubbers" lower sulfer dioxide emissions.

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