The world's most urgent environmental need, he has come to believe, is not for some miraculous-seeming scientific breakthrough but for a vast, unprecedented transformation of human behavior.
Another example is the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), which stated that strengthening the EU Emissions Trading System would cause "carbon leakage" – where businesses move overseas because of high energy costs in Europe – "without any environmental need".
"We understand the environmental need for quotas, but we don't understand why the government allows new fishing companies to enter the market when the quota remains the same," Mr. Bondarenko said.
He enunciated the law of use and disuse, which states that when certain organs become specially developed as a result of some environmental need, then that state of development is hereditary and can be passed on to progeny.
But when it comes to food and agriculture, Walmart has found a sweet spot, a place where its low-cost mantra is nicely aligned with the social and environmental need to deliver safe and affordable food to the world, using less land, less water and fewer chemical inputs to do it.
The environmental need for strategic, global dematerialisation is well documented in academic literature [3, 4].
Ion exchange systems for the removal of nutrient pollutants, even at extremely low concentrations, from wastewater effluents are a major environmental need.
The use of solid wastes and natural fibres to the production of innovative composites is now a matter of environmental need.
"But where we see an environmental need to go further... we do.
The environmental need for ERF (environmental remediation formula) will be driven by the geology, local water courses, etc. of a cemetery site with any potential mitigation measures engineered or installed during the construction of new cemeteries/extensions".
