Environmental Protection Issues in the 1980s
Abstract
Environmental pollution affects everyone in some form or manner. Excessive pollutants introduced into the environment have an adverse effect on environmental quality on human health, and on other factors important to human life. The United States each year absorbs billions of tons of natural resources and turns out goods and services which we either consume or reinvest for future production. As the economy is producing these goods and services that contribute to our standard of living, it is simultaneously producing other things--polluted rivers and streams, smog that characterizes our major cities, poisonous pesticides, toxic substances, unsafe drinking water, hazardous wastes, radiation, congestion, noise-all of which detract from our quality of life.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 30, 1980
- Accession Number
- AD1118355
Entities
People
- Sam A. Madonia