1970 Imperial Oil report, “Pollution Is Everybody’s Business”

Details found in a 1970 report, “Pollution Is Everybody’s Business,” authored by H.R. Holland, a Chemical Engineer responsible for environmental protection in Imperial Oil’s engineering division, suggests Exxon was aware as early as the late 1960s that global emissions of CO2 from combustion was a chief pollution concern affecting global ecology.

Holland wrote: Since pollution means disaster to the affected species, the only satisfactory course of action is to prevent it – to maintain the addition of foreign matter at such levels that it can be diluted, assimilated or destroyed by natural processes – to protect man’s environment from man.” Included in Holland’s report is a table of the “Estimated Global Emissions of Some Air Pollutants.” One of those “air pollutants” on the table is carbon dioxide with the listed sources as “oxidation of plant and animal matter” and “combustion.”

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2 thoughts on “1970 Imperial Oil report, “Pollution Is Everybody’s Business”

  1. David Scharff

    Thank god for your work. Now it’s up to the people who care for their children’s and grandchildren’s lives to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible.

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