Cuba, our closest and predominant "communist threat,"" will later be reviewed in an environmental prospective, and the causes for its environmental development addressed. ... Environmental problems are to be considered as a world problem, as opposed to national problems, for pollution affects the whole world indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. ... This quote best addresses the problem of international cooperation, for if the problem of pollution has no political boundary, the solution against pollution should be independent of nationality. ... In the particular case of envi...

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Few can question the benefits attributed to the ecological approach when used to monitor and evaluate pollution impact and extent. ... Chemical assessment can't be neglected since different ecosystems may react differently to different sources of pollution. ... Environmental planning addresses all the factors, both natural and human, affecting an ecosystem of a given region. ... Resident biota function as continual monitors of environmental quality, increasing the likelihood of detecting the effects of episodic events (e.g., spills, dumping, treatment plant malfunctions, nutrient enri...

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Communities will benefit from improved quality of life and well being through lower greenhouse emissions, lower particulate emissions, higher efficiency in electricity generation, lower residual waste, lower prices, less nuclear power and less air pollution problems. ... The Gorgons claim to be able to compensate for the negative externalities by enforcing environmental management, risk management and offsets (actions taken to compensate for an unavoidable loss of one or more environmental value), but environmentalists claim that these actions will not be substantial to the damage the developm...

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Remediation of environmental products is an industrial process that uses naturally occurring bacteria, yeast and fungi to degrade toxic substances so that they are no longer harmful or less harmful. Like most processes in industrial biotechnology remediation does not cause pollution and is cost effective. ...

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In an attempt to attract foreign savings or earn higher export revenues has resulted in businesses engaging in un-environmentally friendly activities. ... For example, between 2005 and 2007, 2 million motorbikes were registered in Vietnam (and many more were unregistered), subsequently increasing pollution and placing pressure on Vietnam's infrastructure. ... However, Vietnam's external stability and environmental quality has been negatively affected as the benefits of globalisation has been unevenly distributed across the economy....

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Many people have adopted these two ideas that it has poisoned their minds not to think of the adversely underlying impacts on the environment, human health, and traffic problems However, a number of environmental scholars who are concerned about the bad impacts have considered the reduction of private vehicles with the introduction to public transportation. ... However, it is as the whole country to concern about the problems of the increase in vehicles that surely generate the pollution to affect not only to the environment but also to the health of the citizens as well as congestion. ...

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