Environment 37 Flashcards
Alarming facts: the main environmental problems include air pollution, water pollution from industrial emissions, illegal dumping, waste disposl, overfishing, radioactive contamination, noise pollution,
Deforestation
Effects: health problems, food crisis,
Poor water quality, loss of biological diversity, endangered marine life, erosion and soil degradation
How to protect the environment:
Anti-pollution programmes include imposing stricter environmental standards, enforcing related-laws,
Forests are valuable sources, this is to say phasing out indiscriminate logging,
Applying renewable materials and energy
Using environmentally-friendly alternatives to control fissil fuel emissions and other sources of greenhouse gases
Applying efficient waste disposal systems that include waste treatment, recycling, disposal facilities, waste collection, and designing sanitary landfills.
Designed to be thrown away after use
Disposable
Polluter
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Recyclable
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Climate change
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Conservation area
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Dumping
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Endangered species
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Echo-friendly
Ozone-friendly
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Rainforest
Carbon footprint
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Causing no release kf co2 in the atmosphere
Carbon-zero
Destruction of the environment esp when deliperate
Ecocide
A risk to the environment or health from a biological source
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