Energy Summary

Ch 11: Environmental Laws, Economics, and Ethics
The nineties were characterized by the search for greater understanding of the concept and the importance of sustainable development, which was complemented by the fastest growing trends towards globalization, especially in relation to trade and technology. The conviction grew that there was an increasing number of global issues related to the environment that required international solutions.
The Black Triangle, located at the borders of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland received its name from its extreme air pollution caused by rapid industrialization after the Second World War. Many air pollutants (sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide) are more strictly controlled in the past two decades and its impact has been reduced. In addition to causing or aggravating respiratory diseases, air pollution in the Black Triangle, especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, produced acid rain, wet deposition that have been made more acidic than normal rain. Acid rain is harmful to forests to aquatic ecosystems. Acid rain that penetrates the ground can dissolve nutrients such as calcium and magnesium can cause aluminum in the soil is loose. The forests on higher ground at greater risk because they are exposed to acidic clouds and fog, which contain more acidic than rain or snow and shed their nutrients to the leaves and buds.
Hungary established the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe to address environmental issues in post-Soviet Central Europe. Communism had no concern for any environmental issues. Their main goal was high production in spite of any damage it may cause. Environmental problems received no attention in the countries of Eastern Europe, where political and economic regimes did not give priority to the environment until the end of 1980. It is evident