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Challenges
Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the air-polluting emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.
Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The tropical rainforests of South America contain the largest diversity of species on Earth, including some that have evolved within the past few hundred thousand years.
See also: List of environmental issues and World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
It is the common understanding of natural environment that underlies environmentalism — a broad political, social, and philosophical movement that advocates various actions and policies in the interest of protecting what nature remains in the natural environment, or restoring or expanding the role of nature in this environment. While true wilderness is increasingly rare, wild nature (e.g., unmanaged forests, uncultivated grasslands, wildlife, wildflowers) can be found in many locations previously inhabited by humans. # ISO certification in India
Goals for the benefit of people and natural systems, commonly expressed by environmental scientists and environmentalists include:
- Elimination of pollution and toxicants in air, water, soil, buildings, manufactured goods, and food.
- Preservation of biodiversity and protection of endangered species.
- Conservation and sustainable use of resources such as water, land, air, energy, raw materials, and natural resources.
- Halting human-induced global warming, which represents pollution, a threat to biodiversity, and a threat to human populations.
- Shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy in electricity, heating and cooling, and transportation, which addresses pollution, global warming, and sustainability. This may include public transportation and distributed generation, which have benefits for traffic congestion and electric reliability.
- Shifting from meat-intensive diets to largely plant-based diets in order to help mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change.
- Establishment of nature reserves for recreational purposes and ecosystem preservation.
- Sustainable and less polluting waste management including waste reduction (or even zero waste), reuse, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy, and anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge.
- Reducing profligate consumption and clamping down on illegal fishing and logging.
- Slowing and stabilisation of human population growth.
Criticism
In some cultures the term environment is meaningless because there is no separation between people and what they view as the natural world, or their surroundings. Specifically in the United States and Arabian countries many native cultures do not recognize the “environment”, or see themselves as environmentalists.# ISO certification in India