Pollution

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Description:

Pollution is any contaminant in the environment that causes instability to the ecosystem.

Enablers:

Manufacturing, economy, energy, fossil fuels, populaiton

Inhibitors:

education, regulations, technology, values

Paradigms:

The most important pollutant is Carbon Dioxide, because of its exponential growth since the industrial revolution. http://www.sciencebits.com/files/pictures/climate/CarbonHistory.png

Experts:

Al Gore ~ An Inconvenient Truth

Timing:

Web Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide http://www.pollutionprobe.org/Reports/csr_january06.pdf