Some worry about traffic, others that smoke and paper offerings will pollute the neighbourhood.
Worse, a fixed allotment of permits makes no adjustment for thebusiness cycle (firms produce and pollute less during a recession).
And while we continuously significantly pollute and exhaust our water, soil, and air resources, we still like to talk much about preserving, saving, and restoring natural riches.
The intention is to encourage firms that find it cheap to cut emissions to do so, while allowing those with no easy means to pollute less to buy permits instead.
As developing countries get richer, they tend to pollute less.
And unlike meat from those filthy places, it will not pollute rivers and streams, deplete groundwater or cause deforestation.
Vast frontiers of land and ocean offered infinite resources. Humans could pollute freely, and they could avoid any local repercussions simply by moving elsewhere.
Sometimes people pollute the environment.
Ecological sanitation gets that out of the water and back onto farmland to enrich, not pollute.
Making matters worse, much of the manufacturing that used to pollute the West has found a ready home in China, where environmental regulations are loosely enforced.
We love the sea, yet we pollute it.
These contaminants can pollute air, water, and soil. They include lead, mercury, silver, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, chromium and cadmium.
In 10 or 20 years, one of these kids is going to cure cancer or make an engine that doesn’t pollute. And as they receive their Nobel prize, someone is going to ask them what made them do it.
Some of the contents of this gas, such as lead, not only pollute the atmosphere but cause actual harm to the health of people.
Remember not to waste me or pollute me.
These substances leak from the rusty barrels and pollute soil.
Zoroastrians believe the body is impure and shouldn't pollute the earth after death through burial or cremation.
Everyone blithely signed on to the EU's flagship emissions-trading scheme. But France and Germany then gave their industries so many permits to pollute that they undermined the entire scheme.
The buses are cheaper and able to serve far more streets but move more slowly, pollute more and contribute to traffic congestion.
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