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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
What is the environment?
It is all of the surrounding conditions and influences that affect the
development of living things.
What is environmental pollution?
It is any process, natural or man-made, that leads to harmful or objec-
tionable changes to the environment.
What is environmental protection?
It is any action taken to prevent environmental pollution.
The above questions and the answers may seem obvious to most people in
view of the current and growing concern for our surroundings, but the terms
are used so frequently in the press and on TV without explanation that it
seems prudent to know the exact definitions.
