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Pollution
* Discuss the ecofeminist perspective on pollution.
* More pollution is seen as the result of any effort to return balance to the environmental equation.
* Most pollution affects human societies
  - life
  - marine life
  - monk seal habitats
  - nest habitats
  - weather
* Most pollution causes adverse health effects
  - cardiovascular problems
* Most pollution causes health effects
  - illnesses
* Most pollution comes from many small and sometimes unidentifiable sources
  - decreases rainfall
* Most pollution destroys animal habitats
  - exists for centuries
* Most pollution is caused by diesel and petrol driven motor vehicles
* Most pollution leads to diseases
  - respiratory diseases
  - occurs in localized areas of watersheds
  - product of large numbers
* Most pollution threatens aquatic life
* Some pollution affects amphibians
  - hearts
  - human health
  - sea turtles
  - trees
  - women
* Some pollution causes accumulation
  - acid rain
  - cancer
  - explosions
  - fungal infection
  - high mortality
  - lichens
  - lung cancer
  - precipitation
  - premature death
  - sea turtle mortality
  - comes from burns
  - contributes to smogs
* Some pollution increases gases
  - greenhouse gases
  - radiation
  - involves accumulation
* Some pollution is caused by combustion
  - fractures
  - hydraulic fractures
  - runoff
  - urban runoff
* Some pollution is faced by astronomers
  - optical astronomers
  - kills humans
* Some pollution leads to accumulation
  - extinction
  - limits fish production
* acts to decrease the number of available ecological niches, thus reducing biodiversity.
* affected by wind is good and bad for different people.
* affects air, water, animals, and plants
  - children more than most adults, so it is particularly serious in schools
  - environments
  - everyone in the world today - and in the future
  - many smaller organisms
  - north american weather
  - our food sources, water supplies, and air quality
  - photosynthesis
  - survival
  - the health and welfare of humans and other organisms
* also accounts for a considerable number of fish kills
  - affects significantly human health and all lifeforms on Earth
  - comes from sewage and industrial waste put into rivers
  - contributes to forest degradation
  - damages natural systems
  - enters our personal lives, affecting our individual health and well being
  - has a dramatic effect on natural resources
  - poses a threat to estuaries
  - possible threat to horseshoe crabs
* arises as a consequence of production and consumption both activities generate bads
  - from fish faecal waste and uneaten food
* arising from car traffic causes bronchial and asthmatic diseases.
* becomes big problems
* builds up overnight at ground level during stagnant, calm, cold periods.
* can add different gases or dust and soot.
* can affect air, land, sea water, fresh water ecosystems
  - both adults and turtles in the egg
  - rain, rivers, lakes, oceans and groundwater
* can also affect dugong physiologically through the bio accumulation of toxic compounds
  - wildlife and contribute to extinction
* can also be garbage that people throw on the ground or into the ocean, lakes or rivers
  - the consequence of a natural disaster
  - cause unpredictable death of fish or decrease their reproductive rate
  - eliminate food for sturgeon
  - have a synergistic, or combined, effect
  - hurt animal and plant populations
  - pose a risk to our health, especially during a vicious heatwave in the summer
* can be a trigger for some people but it is only one of many things that can affect asthma
  - diffusion of instrument content
  - harmful to our Earth and all living creatures
  - bring about sickness and death in a myriad of ways
  - change a water's pH, which in turn can harm animals and plants living in the water
* can come from a number of places
  - houses, from factories, and from roads
  - industry, agricultural practices and other sources
  - effect the environment as well, but also in our minds
* can enter coastal waters in stormwater runoff and by way of leaky septic systems
  - the air or streams imposing costs on others
  - go up in the clouds and then move to another state and even around the world
  - impact many of an organism's life functions and essential activities
* can kill animals and fish
  - living organisms directly and selectively, affecting biodiversity in the oceans
  - lower the pH of the water, affecting all organisms from algae to vertebrates
* can make an aquifer unfit
  - breathing difficult and lead to cardiac arrest
  - occur in the air or in water
  - poison cats and cause physical damage as well as death
  - significantly lower oxygen content in water and threaten aquatic life
  - take many forms
* cans have effects
  - serious impact
* causes adverse effects
  - free radicals to form in bodies
  - someone, animal or human, to suffer
  - stress
* changes patterns
  - the quality and quantity of food available to corals
  - weather patterns
* comes from both rural and urban areas
  - diffuse sources
  - man-made items
  - more diffuse sources
* comes in all shapes and sizes
* common problem for Europe and the world.
* contamination, especially of air or water.
* continues to threaten the environment, as well.
* contributes to air pollution
  - destruction
* creates conditions
  - contaminated food sources and adversely affects recreational activities
  - stressful conditions
* damaging excess of contaminants.
* derives primarily from immorality.
* despoils the very environment upon which all life depends.
  - vital body nutrients and stress uses up minerals and B-vitamins
* disrupts the natural food chain as well.
* disturbs our ecosystem and the balance in the environment.
* eating microbes colonize in the oxidized zone surrounding the root surface.
* emanating from the Asian landmass is detectable in Hawaii.
* entering animal habitats is an adverse hurricane impact.
* feeds the algae and the algae chokes the life out of many reef systems.
* further reduces the supply of safe drinking water.
* general term to describe the destruction of an environment.
* global problem
  - reality for the entire biosphere
* happens all the time, every minute, every second of the day.
* harmful change in the natural environment caused by human activities.
* harms private individuals and private property.
* has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region
  - long history
  - cumulative ecological effects such as acid rain, global warming, or ozone depletion
  - devastate effects
  - negative impact
* helps weeds take over prairies.
* huge issues for turtles, specifically littering.
* impacts health
  - on ecosystems
* is also a big factor in the extinction of the species
  - problem indoors
  - factor in the environmental destructiveness of coca and poppy cultivation
  - threat to manatees
  - another factor that gives rise to variegated bud-sport
  - due to diffuse discharges of chemicals from a variety of sources
  - responsible for many bird deaths
  - an environmental condition
* is an example of a spillover cost
  - an externality
  - imbalance of a system resulting from human activity
  - impurity
  - indirect product of driving a car
  - ongoing threat to water-based recreation, fishing and tourism
  - unwanted material that plagues a large part of the world
* is another concern that can adversely affect wildlife
  - important cause of extinctions
* is another problem caused by consumption
  - that threatens fresh water
  - result of capitalism
* is another threat caused by man
  - to non-vascular plants
  - way that big corporations kill
  - anything that spoils the environment
  - as great a threat to aquatic ecosystems as river and lake depletion
* is bad for the Earth and all the people and animals that live on it
  - believed by many scientists to be responsible for the onset of climate change
* is caused by humans
  - powerful polluters
  - selfish individuals who lack self-control
  - the over development that has happened over the past decade or two
  - clearly an important issue for all organisms inhabiting our planet
  - concentrated around urban areas
  - contamination of the environment by harmful substances
* is controlled at waste treatment plants and chemical plants using air structures
  - by encouraging the optimum use of products that minimize contamination
  - crime
  - emphasized and related to natural resources use
  - generally most severe in the late fall, when temperature inversions are common
  - generated during road construction, maintenance, and use
* is harmful to everything, especially oceans
  - plants, animals, and people
  - important for human health but can also affect ecosystem function at a regional scale
  - in the air, ground and water
  - increased when population density increases
  - just a subset of depletion
* is located in air
  - streets
  - money going up the chimney, down the sewer, or out the door into waste trucks
  - noxious chemicals or refuse that impairs purity
* is one of the American public's greatest environmental concerns
  - biggest problems facing lobster populations
* is one of the greatest impacts by humans on ecosystems
  - problems modern society is facing
  - many modern health hazards
  - potential agent of change in estuarine fish populations
  - reason so many animals are endangered
  - way humans impact the oceans
  - only a small etiologic factor in the cause of cancer
  - particularly dangerous to amphibians like frogs and toads
  - perceived to be a relatively recent problem, created solely by man
  - permitted because individuals can control personal, home environment
  - probably the most important threat to water quality in estuaries
  - result of misallocation of resources and is easily managed
* is the cause of all acid deposition
  - condition that results when pollutants interact with the environment
  - contamination of air, soil, or water by the discharge of harmful substances
  - introduction of a contaminant into the natural environment
* is the introduction of harmful contaminants into air, water or soil
  - materials into the environment
  - or poisonous substances into an ecosystem
  - path to super races of creatures
  - release of harmful substances into the environment
  - worst foe of a healthy ecosystem
  - theft, and theft moral problem
  - thus a threat to life
  - too much of something that causes the water and the organisms in the water to die
* is usually a good measure of inefficiency
  - harmful to one or more species of animal or plant
  - violence
  - when someone releases something harmful into the environment
  - widespread and people are dying because of it
  - worse when the whole person is defiled, as in the case of fornication
* kills lobsters
  - many plants and animals
  - one person every hour in the capital
  - the seagrass and other plants which manatees and dugongs eat
* leads to a variety of health problems
* less visible and potentially insidious threat to amphibian survival.
* limits growth.
* major cause of poor public health in Russia today
  - contributor in terms of global resource destruction
  - human-induced problem
* makes it more difficult and costly to clean water
  - marine species vulnerable to disease by weakening their immune systems
  - the air dry and the water unusable
* necessary by-product of production.
* negatively affects humans and other living things.
* occurs as a by-product of some other activity
  - when a resource is used incompletely
* poses threat to seals because it concentrates in body fat which seals have a lot of.
* pours into our water and our air.
* problem Many lakes are polluted, and sport fishing suffers because fish are dying
  - chiefly in Pacific coastal waters and marginal seas near cities
  - that many people have tried to solve
* puts environmental pressure on many species.
* reacts with heat and sunlight to create smog.
* reduces transparencies.
* relative term.
* runs rampant through our global environment.
* secondary effect of humans.
* serious problem wherever smelting is taking place
  - threat to wild life, especially in areas where lots of people live
* sign of economic inefficiency.
* simplified way of classifying a multitude of harmful acts and elements.
* slightly increases when built in larger cities.
* social justice issue.
* spreads through water just like the food coloring does.
* tends to reduce water clarity.
  - fish and other wildlife
* travels freely through the common air that bathes the globe.
* trespass against the rights of other property owners.
* trigger for asthma sufferers, and the heat of summer often makes the condition worse.
* washing off farms is the biggest threat to water quality in our rivers.
* word without corporeal example.