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Environmental threats
99.6
The Great Garbage Swirl
(Rated 8 times)
This dry, windless area is dominated by the Northern Pacific Gyre, a wind cur...
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94.1
Deforestation
(Rated 9 times)
Deforestation is the logging or burning of trees in forested areas. There are...
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91.6
Dumping Hazardous Wastes
(Rated 5 times)
USA chemical companies and the military dumped 80-85% of their wastes into ne...
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91.2
Smog
(Rated 4 times)
Smog is a kind of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke an...
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88.2
Automobiles
(Rated 4 times)
The impact of the automobile and the auto-centered transport system on the Am...
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73.9
China's Resource Consumption
(Rated 12 times)
At the rate China is producing, another earth will be required in 2030 to sus...
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71.2
Overpopulation
(Rated 8 times)
Overpopulation is a condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying...
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71.0
Chemical Pollution
(Rated 7 times)
Chemical wastes from industry have been dumped in hundreds of thousands of si...
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71.0
Private Jets
(Rated 5 times)
Private jets are an unjust and ultimately harmful method of transportation. A...
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68.0
Mining
(Rated 3 times)
mining: By 1980 about 10% of Japanese rice paddies had become unsuitable for ...
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67.5
CO2
(Rated 11 times)
It has increased to 0.035% (350 ppm) due to human use of fossil fuels. The us...
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67.4
Acid Rain
(Rated 5 times)
85% of the lakes in the Adirondack Mountains have been acidified by industry....
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60.6
Light Pollution
(Rated 10 times)
It obscures the stars in the night sky for city dwellers, interferes with ast...
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38.7
Wood heat
(Rated 3 times)
Hey, you see that old, unused fire place? Or better, yet, wood stove? Why not...
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29.0
Nuclear power
(Rated 7 times)
It's cheap and virtually endless electricity, particularly suitable for resou...
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