First, climate change is a pollution problem with direct consequences.
Environmentalists from Greenpeace say incineration simply changes the waste problem into a pollution problem.
"They are making excuses to avoid facing the fact that Delhi has a pollution problem once again".
Aware it had a pollution problem, Vedanta employed a leading Canadian engineering firm in 2010 to advise on remedies.
Because climate change is a pollution problem, we have regulatory and scientific tools at our disposal to address it, as the E.P.A. showed recently with its proposed new emissions regulations.
Being free of sulfur, laterite nickel deposits do not cause a pollution problem as do the sulfide ores, but they do require substantial energy input, and their mining can have a detrimental effect on the environment (e.g., soil erosion).
China early recognized it faced a pollution problem amid high-speed growth and had some forward-looking strategies that emphasized a more balanced approach to development, Mr. Qu said.
"They came in here and turned everything upside down, ruined our yards -- they're full of weeds, and I don't know what for," said Joe Alder, 80, a 43-year veteran of one of the mines who said he was skeptical that there was ever much of a pollution problem.
Tim Flannery, paleontologist and chief commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission, says that incentivizing this transformation is simple: "What we're dealing with is essentially a pollution problem, and we've known how to fix pollution problems for the last 1,000 years, since King Edward the First: you tax the polluters, get the polluter to pay".
Wendell Berry once wrote that when we took animals off farms and put them onto feedlots, we had, in effect, taken an old solution — the one where crops feed animals and animals' waste feeds crops — and neatly divided it into two new problems: a fertility problem on the farm, and a pollution problem on the feedlot.
Ammonia (NH3) deposition in natural areas is a pollution problem that is suited for spatially differentiated pollution control.
