Eighty-four percent of respondents said cities were becoming more polluted, and 67% said logging and development were shrinking forests.
Chicken Littles in those days argued that the earth was becoming overpopulated, that we were running out of food, oil and other natural resources, that we were becoming more polluted.
In the rich countries, the air that we breathe and the water we drink or swim in is cleaner now than in 1900 or 1950, and it is clear that, given the will, it can be made cleaner in poor (and now increasingly more polluted) countries as well.
Hu reiterated past calls by China for industrialized powers to contribute more to a solution because they polluted more in developing their economies.
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More children are drinking polluted water and breathing polluted air.
Polluted water kills more people than all wars, crimes and terrorism combined, according to the U.N.
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There are now hundreds of these new types of polluted index funds and hundreds more in SEC registration.
He gripes that it polluted the breed by registering more than 100 Kiger-type horses, some from other parts of the country.
Sark's Agriculture and Environment Committee also claimed the water supply could be polluted by pesticides and fungicides if more vines were planted.
In India, for example, more than 400 million people live along the highly polluted Ganges River.
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Spokesman Steve George said more than 1, 000 litres of fuel had polluted two miles of nearby Stoke Brook and a lake.
More than 2, 000 miles of streams are polluted by mine drainage, and smallmouth bass in the lower region are suffering from increasing levels of disease, Swartz said.
So today, many cities are looking for more innovative, cost-effective approaches to managing their polluted storm water.
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It safeguards more than 1, 000 miles of our rivers, protects watersheds and cleans up polluted groundwater, defends our oceans and Great Lakes, and will revitalize our fisheries, returning fish to rivers that have not seen them in decades.
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