LooseLeaf for Sociology: A Brief Introduction
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Author: Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To discuss: The community’s environmental issues and find the ways to solve them
Environmental pollution:
Environmental pollution can be defined as the contamination of the biological and physical elements of the atmosphere or earth system to the extent that normal environmental systems are negatively affected.
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