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Some more expensive measures can be taken to mitigate the pollution of ships. Replacing older model ships with ships containing new engines allows the ships to meet modern emission standards. Exhaust systems can also be retrofitted in order to reduce exhaust emissions. Looking ahead into the future, there are a few technologies being developed.
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! Osha Gray Davidson: M: 1954– Natural history: The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef: Kenneth S. Deffeyes: M: Peak oil: Hubbert's Peak: Mark Derr: M: Environment of Florida: Some kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida: Nate Dickinson: M: 1932–2011 ...
This form of pollution can lead to many problems. One is the degradation of aquatic ecosystems. Another is spreading water-borne diseases when people use polluted water for drinking or irrigation. [154] Water pollution also reduces the ecosystem services such as drinking water provided by the water resource.
Ecological Imperialism (book) The Ecology of Freedom; Ecology: Can We Survive Under Capitalism? The Economical Environmentalist; Ecotage! The Edge of the Sea; Encounters with the Archdruid; Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; The End of Nature; The End of Night (book) The End of the Line (book) Endemic Bird Areas of the World
In July 2007, it was reported that the World Bank reluctantly censored a report revealing that 750,000 people in China die every year as a result of pollution-related diseases. China's State Environment Protection Agency and the Health Ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths from the report fearing the ...
In 2005, economic losses (mainly from air pollution) were calculated at 7.7% of China's GDP. This grew to 10.3% by 2002 and the economic loss from water pollution (6.1%) began to exceed that caused by air pollution. [18] China has been one of the top performing countries in terms of GDP growth (9.64% in the past ten years). [18]