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Natural and social pollution
Mladen Stojanov
Sažetak
In its study of the disturbing proportions of
pollution in the village and agriculture,
ecology is confronted with visible
difficulties. It has no predse and developed
vocabulary, no precisely determined
subject, no clear relations with the many
sdentific disciplines it must integrate
within it.
The alarming state of environmental
pollution has imposed a biotechnical
concept and criterion of pollution.
According to this criterion, pollution
begins after the "permitted" treshold
(amount) of soil, water and air pollution
has been crossed. That pollution criterion
is predse and very important, but it is
one-sided and superficial because it
considers that pollution is the result of an
accident, i.e. of a mistake or uncontrolled
activity.
However, environmental pollution does
not begin with an accident or crossing the
"permitted" threshold of pollution.
Pollution begins before that, and it is not
caused by accident but by "cracks" in the
industrial civilization and social relations
based on that civilization. Thus it is not
suffident for ecology to merely demand
work and technological discipline.
The village and agriculture are areas into
which pollution was imported from the
town. Therefore, the problem of rural
pollution cannot be understood or solved
within its own narrow framework, but
only in the horizons of sodety as a whole.
The interest in rural ecological problems is
directed by the selfish interest of the town.
Thus the historic antimony and rift
between village and town appear in a new
way in the plane of ecological problems:
the town introduced pollution into the
village and will work on its removal to the
measure of its own interests.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119884
URI
Datum izdavanja:
7.12.1990.
Posjeta: 4.873 *