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Illustrations Photographs and Cartoons Riverfront waste disposal 4 Pollution on Oregon beach 5 Fire on the Cuyahoga River 6 Garbage barges in New York City 7 “Oh beautiful for polluted skies” 12 “Give a man a fish” 94 Deformed Great Lakes cormorant 96 “Civilization is Doomed” 107 “Using paper instead of plastic hardly seems like enough” 109 Charts and Graphs World population growth 26 Land development in the United States 27 World ecological footprint 30 Ecological footprint by nation 34 U.S. at-risk fish stocks 39 The effect of global climate on weather patterns 43 Visibility and air pollution in the United States 54 Pollution levels of vehicles 58 Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico 63 Continued Loss of Wetlands 64 Water resources running short 70 World oil supply 74 U.S. energy use 77 Accumulation of chemical contaminants in the food chain 98 ix ...

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