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The process of environmental protection will come under staggering pressure during the 1990s and for the foreseeable future. It took all of human history to develop an economy of $600 billion by the year 1900. Eighty-five years later, the world economy was expanding by more than that amount every 2 years. In the year 2050, the global economy is expected to reach $13 trillion, more than five times what it is today (Speth, 1988). Resource use will expand enormously, as will the production of waste, the formation of chemical by-products, and the deposition of contaminants into surface waters.
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Moore, J.W. (1991). Introduction. In: Inorganic Contaminants of Surface Water. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3004-5_1
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