Problem
Pollution
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Polluters Nature:
Put simply, pollution is the damage caused to any environment by harmful substances or waste. Most often pollution concerns the natural environment – water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, soil contamination, thermal pollution, light pollution, visual pollution, radioactive contamination, plastic pollution, and littering. Other types of pollution include mental pollution, genetic pollution, space pollution, etc.
Narrower Problems:
Environmental pollutionMental pollution Space debrisGenetic pollutionPollutants Related Problems:
ImpairmentImproprietyBadnessComplexity Values:
Pollution Organizations:
Greenpeace InternationalWorld Nature Organization50 Years Is Enough - US Network for Global Economic JusticeWorld Bank Bonds Boycott (WBBB)Peoples' Global Action Against Free Trade and the WTO (PGA)Institute on Globalization and the Human ConditionCommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)Amnesty International (AI) References:
Commission of the European Communities and Environmental Resources Ltd: The Law and Practice Relating to Pollution Control in the Member States of the European CommunitiesSpringer, Allen L: The International Law of Pollution: protecting the global environment in a world ofGoldstein, Eleanor C: PollutionMarkham, Adam: A Brief History of PollutionBradby, Hannah: Dirty Words: writings on the history and culture of pollution Web Page(s):
Pollution Toxic Culture: A Unified Theory of Mental Pollution
What is genetic pollution?
South Africa: wild animals at risk of 'genetic pollution'
Space Pollution
Scientists may have found a solution for space pollution
Subject(s):
Societal Problems → PollutionRelated UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
A: Abstract Fundamental Problems Date of last update
10.02.2020 – 16:04 CET