ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POLLUTION CONTROL – STATE OF POLLUTION ( 5 VOLUME )

We must guide the human race living in
a historic transitional period of burgeoning
awareness of the conflict between human
activities and environmental constraints,
preparing to venture into a new century
and a new millennium and to finally help
save the fragile and endangered planet
with the natural resources already
overtaxed and for developing a critical
path to governance through modern ideas
for reducing the toll exacted in supporting
daily life and the ever growing problems
on the earth exerting profound pressures
on the environment.
As the human race prepares to venture
into a new century, conversations and
news reports are peppered with
references to our fragile and endangered
planet. The earth is five billion years old,
and over the eons it has endured
bombardment by meteors, abrupt shifts
in its magnetic fields, dramatic
realignment of its land masses, and the
advance and retreat of massive ice
mountains that reshaped its surface. Life,
too, has proved resilient: In the more than
three and a half billion years first forms of
life emerged, biological species have
come and gone, but life has persisted
without interruption. In fact, no matter
what we humans do, it is unlikely that we
could suppress the powerful and chemical
forces that drive the earth system.
Although we cannot completely disrupt
the earth system, we do affect it
significantly as we use energy and emit
pollutants in our quest to provide food,
shelter, and a host of other products for
the world’s growing population. We
release chemicals that gnaw holes in the
ozone shield that protects us from harmful
ultraviolet radiation, and we burn fuels that
emit heat – trapping gases that build up
in the atmosphere
This Encyclopaedia of Pollution Control
will be quite useful for the libraries of
public and private sector organisations,
universities, schools and colleges for
enabling the users of this Encyclopaedia
for acquiring expert knowledge of different
pollution control techniques as well as
technologies for depolluting mother earth.