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The word “pollution” derives etymologically from the Latin pollŭo (to soil, to dirty, to make impure, to infect with a disease).
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Pollution. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_409
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