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  2. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

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    267 pp. ISBN. 9789501245455. OCLC. 1120425230. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown is a 2008 book by sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Débora Swistun. Its subject is the impact of pollution and toxicity on the residents of Flammable, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  3. Environmental impact of aviation - Wikipedia

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    In its Sixth Assessment Report, the IPCC notes that sustainable biofuels, low-emissions hydrogen, and derivatives (including ammonia and synthetic fuels) can support mitigation of CO 2 emissions but some hard-to-abate residual GHG emissions remain and would need to be counterbalanced by deployment of carbon dioxide removal methods. [76]

  4. List of environmental books - Wikipedia

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    2016. Climate change; colonialism. ISBN 9780190206598. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. 2012. Various themes. ISBN 978-1-4516-1421-3. Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia.

  5. Environmental activism of Al Gore - Wikipedia

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    Gore. Al Gore is an American politician and environmentalist. He was vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, the Democratic Party 's presidential nominee in 2000, and the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

  6. Purity and Danger - Wikipedia

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    Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.

  7. Timeline of history of environmentalism - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of the history of environmentalism is a listing of events that have shaped humanity's perspective on the environment. This timeline includes human induced disasters, environmentalists that have had a positive influence, and environmental legislation . For a list of geological and climatological events that have shaped human ...

  8. Pollution and the Death of Man - Wikipedia

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    Pollution and the Death of Man is an ecological and philosophical work by the American presuppositionalist theologian Francis A. Schaeffer, published in 1970. [ 1 ] Quotations

  9. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

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    Main sources of global methane emissions (2008-2017) according to the Global Carbon Project [ 40] Methane emissions come from livestock, manure, rice cultivation, landfills, wastewater, and coal mining, as well as oil and gas extraction. [ 41] Nitrous oxide emissions largely come from the microbial decomposition of fertiliser.