"Every three seconds a portion of original rainforest the size of a football field disappears. . . . The loss of primary forest is destroying thousands of plant and animal species." - Illustrated Atlas of the World (Rand McNally).
"In two centuries of settlement, [the Great Lakes] have also become the world's biggest sewer." The Globe and Mail (Caada).
In April 1986 an exploson and fire at a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, U.S.S. R., "was the most significant nuclear even . . . since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," emitting "as much long-term radiation into the world's air, topsol and water as all the nucleasr tests and bombs ever exploded." - JAMA; The New York Times.
In Minamata, Japan, a chemical plant discharged methylmercury int the bay. Eating fish and shellfish contaminated wsith the discharge caused Minamata disease (MD) a "chronic neurologica disease. . . . To date [1985], 2578 people go throughout Japan have officially been verified to have MD." - Internation Journal fo Epidemology.
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