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Asia Perspectives by Economist Impact
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What Are the Knowledge Gaps in the Environment?
We don't even know, necessarily, what all these 350 thousand things are. We're inventing new chemicals every day, and we don't understand their toxicity. Thereis no environment on a planet that is not contaminated by plastics. That includes the deepest parts of the oceans,. Snow in the polar regions and snow everywhere. And there is evidence of a lot of Persistent Chemicals that don't degrade to top creditors. So when it comes to climate change, or looking at one perometer, like temperature or carbon dioxide levels, you have knowledge gaps. When it comes to ocean isitification, it's ph sothyre looking at 300 an 50 thousand things. Do maybe
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