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Pollution waste protect recycled damage factory emission environmentalist

1)injury or harm;

2)a substance, fluid, etc., that is emitted;

3)to defend from trouble, harm, attack, etc;

4)a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly for the manufacture of goods;

5)a person who is concerned with the maintenance of ecological balance and the conservation of the environment;

6)to reclaim (packaging or products with a limited useful life) for further use;

7)garbage, rubbish or trash;

8)harmful or poisonous substances introduced into an environment.

6. Use these words to complete the sentences:

1.During the last hundred years we haveДdone great ………to the environment.

2.There’s a large chemical ………in our town which polluted the river twice in the last year. А

3.The Government is very worried about the ………of our rivers and beaches. б

4.A lot of household ………like bottles and newspapers can be

………and used again.и

5.………are furious with the American Government for delaying measures whichСwill reduce greenhouse gas ………

6.There lots of things we can all do to ………the environment.

7.List of problems И Air pollution

Litter

Destruction of the rainforests

Drought

Ozone layer destruction

Radiation

Acid rains

Global warming

8. What causes the damage? Brainstorm ideas!

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BBC News Online's Planet under Pressure series takes a detailed look at six areas where most experts agree that a crisis is brewing:

An estimated 1 in 6 people suffer from hunger and malnutrition while attempts to grow food are damaging swathes of productive land.

By 2025, two-thirds of the world's people are likely to be living in areas of acute water stress.

Oil production could peak and supplies start

The world's greatest environmental chalИ- lenge, according to the UK prime minister Tony

Blair, with increased storms, floods, droughtДand species losses predicted.

Many scientists think the Earth is now entering its sixth great extinction phase. А

Hazardous chemicals areбnow found in the bodies of all new-born babies, and an estimated one in four people worldwide are exposed to unhealthy concentrationsиof air pollutants (pic. 220).

All six problems are linked and urgent, so a list of priorities is little help. It is pointless Сto preserve species and habitats, for example, if climate change will destroy them anyway, or to develop novel crops if the water they need is not there.

And underlying all these pressures is a seventh –

There are already more than six billion of us, and on present trends the UN says we shall probably number about 8.9 billion by 2050 (pic. 219). Population growth means something else, too: although the proportion of people living in poverty is continuing to fall, the absolute number goes on rising, because fecundity outstrips our efforts to improve their lives. Poverty matters because it leaves many people no choice but to exploit the environment, and it fuels frustration.

Above all, it condemns them to stunted lives and early deaths - both avoidable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/

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