Lucica TOFAN, Preface

In today’s world pollution knows no boundaries, manifested in all types of environments: air, water and soil. During the industrial and post-industrial eras it became an integral part of the planet, like a poison that entered the body permanently. What’s to be done and especially what can we do? One scenario – to leave Earth, to take it from the beginning on another celestial body, untouched by pollution?  Or at the reverse pole – to go back to very simple ways of life, giving up all conquests of science, forgetting electricity, nuclear power, modern transport, as a return to life in “stone age”?  Both scenarios are quite unimaginable. Drastically rationalizing “consumption” and changing our current consumerist pattern are limits difficult to achieve.

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