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ECOLOGICAL DEATH [2 records]

Record 1 2016-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Funeral Services
  • Pollution (General)
CONT

Eco-death. Other items on display at the convention include eco-friendly caskets and plant-based embalming fluids, allowing [the deceased] to leave this earthly realm without the impact of a higher-end coffin or chemical preservative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes funèbres
  • Pollution (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

Ecological death manifests itself when animals die from starvation, dietary deficiencies or ingestion of wrong foods (ecoalimental), from infection by pathogens however transmitted (ecopathogenic),from the effects of foreign matter deposited in or on tissues (ecometabolic) or by lethal physical forces operating mechanically from outside the animal (ecophysical).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
CONT

La Cumbre de la Tierra [...] fue el urgente llamado. [...] Hay que hacer compatibles los intereses del desarrollo y la preservación de la naturaleza. [...] La contaminación ambiental es elevada [...] Habría que cerrar, mudar o remodelar, fábricas, centros de labor [invertir] para salvar la mayoría de las bahías [...] que presentan ya la muerte ecológica por funestos vertimientos tóxicos de fábricas, agricultura y albañales de las urbes.

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