Even if the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy appears rather as if it had been caught napping and has only just woken up, the fact may, at all events, be conveyed that the problem of acidification is scarcely a new issue. Instead, it has been with us for as long as industrialisation - for 100 years.
Selvom Udvalget om Industripolitik, Eksterne Økonomiske Forbindelser, Forskning og Energi virker en lille smule, som om det pludselig er vågnet op og blevet taget på sengen, kan man under alle omstændigheder informere om, at forsuringsproblemet næppe er et nyt problem, men derimod har eksisteret lige siden industrialiseringen - i 100 år.