Expanding Ecotoxicology to Enhance the Health of the Biosphere

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:30Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:30Zen
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.description.abstractThe waste, or output, of most species serves as a resource, or input, for other species. This mutualistic process can be disrupted if the output, or waste, exceeds the assimilative capacity of the species in the biosphere. In ecotoxicology, the primary goal is to cease production of chemical substances that cannot serve as useful inputs, or resources, for the biosphere. Once ecotoxicologists eliminate discharges of harmful anthropogenic waste, their new responsibility will be to convert any waste into beneficial inputs, or resources, to the biosphere. Currently, humans anthropogenic waste is damaging the biosphere. In order to convert anthropogenic wastes from hazardous outputs to beneficial inputs, the following steps must be made: 1) humans must cease production of products harmful to the biosphere and 2) examine each production process to eliminate harmful byproducts and replace them with byproducts that will benefit the biosphere.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25065en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Papers/EXPANDING_ECOTOXICOLOGY_TO_ENHANCE_THE_HEALTH_OF_THE.ppten
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciencesen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectecotoxicologyen
dc.subjectanthropogenic wasteen
dc.subjectresourcesen
dc.subjectoutputs and inputsen
dc.titleExpanding Ecotoxicology to Enhance the Health of the Biosphereen
dc.title.serialSupercourse Lecturesen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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