The Problematique (Part 1)
Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"
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The Effects of DDT on the Environment
In the 1970s America was clamping down on pollution. But stocks of even banned pollutants were still rising since many like DDT accumulate in the environment, often for decades or longer. Lead has been accumulating in the Greenland ice caps exponentially and freshwater pollution seems to be going up. The project is absolutely not anti-technological, most of us are in fact rightly to be called technologists. One important question is, will further industrial growth permit us to clean up our environments? Certainly that growth will generate more money for pollution abatement procedures, but will also create more pollution. Pollution decreases food output and may also have adverse effects on mortality. We can think of technology which abates
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