Word: technicus
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Piccard estimated that what he calls Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
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