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‘The waters become corrupt, the air infected’: How the ancient Greeks and Romans viewed pollution and what they did about it

Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways to prevent this. These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times […]