The Sin and Punishment of Alchemists: Modern Chemistry and Environmental Pollution

Author: Zhong Aimin
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: With the glorious development of chemistry, human wisdom and civilization have been advancing at a rapid pace, while the natural environment and conditions on Earth have been deteriorating. In the field of science, there is no discipline like chemistry that so vividly and contradictorily exhibits both good and evil, success and failure: it brings us convenience and comfort, yet it also brings us disasters and suffering. In less than 200 years, chemistry has created over 20 million new substances, but the various forms of pollution caused by chemistry have eliminated countless species. Is it right or wrong? Is it success or failure? Before passing judgment on chemistry, the first thing we must reflect on is: must we only realize that we are not the only ones who suffer when we ourselves are harmed?