Environmental problems of the world. Environmental problem of humanity

Currently, most of humanity is simply a consumer of the generous gifts of nature, destroying what the planet has protected for millions of years. But there is a limit to everything, and our current ecology is an example of this.

Rapid development of industry, emergence of new synthetic materials and thoughtless use natural resources people has led to the fact that the ecological situation of the planet is steadily deteriorating. And environmental problems have already assumed global proportions.

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Ecology occupies a special place among global problems modern world, having a transnational and interstate nature. The issue of the relationship between people and nature has always been acute, however, with the advent of the third millennium, contradictions in the chain “individual - society - surrounding nature"reached their maximum.

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Soil, the fertile layer of the earth, thanks to which most living organisms on the planet, including humans, feed. Preserving it is the most important task of people.

Pollution environment is an inevitable consequence of the progress of human civilization. This phenomenon poses a threat to both the environment as a whole and the life and health of people.

What is it like to be in hothouse conditions?

The greenhouse effect is the overheating of the planet's inner atmospheric layers.

It is caused by increased volumes of fuel consumption, during the combustion of which dust, methane, CO2 and other harmful compounds are released into the atmosphere. Accumulating there, they miss Sun rays, but do not allow heat to dissipate (as polyethylene film). Results: an increase in the Earth's temperature, smoothing out the difference between day and night temperatures, melting glaciers, a sharp change in climate.

What harms nature the most?

The most environmentally harmful industries are:

enterprises of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy;
chemical industry enterprises;
oil refineries;
pulp and paper production.

Each of us makes a daily contribution to environmental degradation by throwing out and pouring into the environment:

household synthetic waste;
vehicle exhausts;
drain water with detergents, detergents and pesticides.

The scale of the environmental problem

All of the above factors lead to the following:

About 20 billion hectares of soil are depleted annually;
6 million hectares of formerly cultivated land are becoming deserts;
there is an expansion of desert areas (the Sahara covers 50 km of land per year);
over 60 years, forest areas have decreased from 15% to 7%;
annually destroys 11 million hectares;
the area of tropical forests burned per year is 1/2 the area of France;
The 20 billion tons of CO2 emitted annually into the atmosphere has increased by 10% since the beginning of the last century, which contributes to the development of the greenhouse effect;
ozone layer The planet is destroyed by 9%, this is the area equal to size USA;
30 billion tons of petroleum products, 50,000 tons of pesticides and 5,000 tons of mercury enter the waters of the World Ocean every year;
In the Russian Federation alone, vehicle emissions account for 30% of the total amount of air pollutants.

And this is not a complete list of the results of anthropogenic activities.

What will the greenhouse effect lead to?

According to scientists' forecasts, if during this century the temperature increases by another 1-3°, then due to the melting of Greenland's glaciers, the water level in the World Ocean will rise, which will lead to desalination of the current on a planetary scale (the Gulf Stream). Its salty waters warm the whole of Europe, but desalination causes the Gulf Stream to slow down, and as a result the average annual temperature and climate change.

Abnormal heat in summer and arctic cold in winter will turn fertile lands into deserts. Species of plants and animals living in narrow temperature ranges will die, destroying links in food chains. The number of earthquakes, floods and hurricanes will increase. It will be very difficult for both flora and fauna to survive in such conditions.

When will the Earth become a garbage dump?

Accumulation household waste and toxic substances in the habitats of living organisms will lead to the complete destruction of their habitats and the destruction of food. Poisoned waters and soils will turn plants poisonous and unsuitable for food. Some living beings mutate due to radiation substances accumulated in the environment. However, such individuals will not be able to leave full-fledged offspring. Therefore, the chances of normal conditions habitat and survival will not be left to anyone.

limit the population;
reduce energy consumption and use;
reduce emissions into the atmosphere;
use natural springs energy;
Use cleaning filters in heavily contaminated areas.

Suspend Greenhouse effect is also real, and for this you need:

replace fossil fuels with hydro, solar, and water energy;
apply waste-free technologies;
achieve minimization of methane emissions;
develop technologies for CO2 absorption;
stop massive deforestation;
increase the amount of green space.

Provided that these measures are observed by absolutely all states and countries of the world, with close international cooperation, our planet will be able to get out of the impending environmental disaster.

The level of human impact on the environment depends primarily on the technical level of society. She was extremely small initial stages development of humanity. However, with the development of society and the growth of its productive forces, the situation begins to change dramatically. The 20th century is the century of scientific and technological progress. Associated with a qualitatively new relationship between science, engineering and technology, it enormously increases the possible and real scale of society’s impact on nature, and poses a whole series of new, extremely pressing problems for humanity, primarily environmental ones.
What is ecology? This term, first used in 1866 by the German biologist E. Haeckel (1834-1919), refers to the science of the relationship of living organisms with the environment. The scientist believed that the new science would deal only with the relationships of animals and plants with their habitat. This term firmly entered our lives in the 70s of the 20th century. However, today we actually talk about environmental problems as social ecology— a science that studies the problems of interaction between society and the environment.

Today, the environmental situation in the world can be described as close to critical. Among the global environmental problems the following can be noted:

1. - the atmosphere in many places is polluted to the maximum permissible levels, and fresh air becomes scarce;

2. - the ozone layer, which protects against cosmic radiation harmful to all living things, is partially damaged;

3. forest cover has been largely destroyed;

4. - surface pollution and disfigurement of natural landscapes: it is impossible to detect a single one on Earth square meter surfaces, wherever there are no artificially created elements.
Thousands of species of plants and animals have been destroyed and continue to be destroyed;

5. - the world ocean is not only depleted as a result of the destruction of living organisms, but also ceases to be a regulator of natural processes

6. - the available reserves of minerals are rapidly declining;

7. - extinction of animal and plant species

1Atmospheric pollution

Back in the early sixties, it was believed that air pollution was a local problem in large cities and industrial centers, but later it became clear that atmospheric pollutants can spread through the air over long distances, affecting adverse effect to areas located at a considerable distance from the place of release of these substances। Thus, air pollution is a global phenomenon and requires international cooperation to control it.

Table 1 Ten most dangerous biosphere pollutants


Carbon dioxide	Formed during the combustion of all types of fuel. An increase in its content in the atmosphere leads to an increase in its temperature, which is fraught with harmful geochemical and environmental consequences.
Carbon monoxide	Formed during incomplete combustion of fuel. May disrupt the thermal balance of the upper atmosphere.
Sulphur dioxide	Contained in industrial smoke. Causes exacerbation of respiratory diseases and harms plants. Corrodes limestone and some stones.
Nitrogen oxides	They create smog and cause respiratory diseases and bronchitis in newborns. Promotes excessive growth of aquatic vegetation.

	One of the dangerous pollutants food products, especially of marine origin. It accumulates in the body and has a harmful effect on the nervous system.
	Added to gasoline. Acts on enzyme systems and metabolism in living cells.
	Leads to harmful environmental consequences, causing the death of planktonic organisms, fish, seabirds and mammals.
DDT and other pesticides	Very toxic to crustaceans. They kill fish and organisms that serve as fish food. Many are carcinogenic.
radiation	In excess of permissible doses it leads to malignant neoplasms and genetic mutations.

Among the mostCommon air pollutants include gases such as freons
। Greenhouse gases also include methane, which enters the atmosphere during the extraction of oil, gas, coal, as well as during the decay of organic residues and the growth of cattle numbers। Methane growth is 1.5% per year। This also includes a compound such as nitrous oxide, which enters the atmosphere as a result of the widespread use of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture, as well as as a result of the combustion of carbon-containing fuels in thermal power plants. However, we should not forget that despite the huge contribution of the listed gases to the “greenhouse effect”, the main greenhouse gas on Earth is still water vapor। With this phenomenon, the heat received by the Earth does not spread into the atmosphere, but thanks to greenhouse gases remains at the surface of the Earth, and only 20% of the total thermal radiation earth's surface goes irrevocably into space. Roughly speaking, greenhouse gases form a kind of glass cover over the surface of the planet.

In the future, this may lead to increased melting of ice and an unpredictable rise in the level of the world's oceans, flooding of parts of the continental coasts, and the disappearance of a number of species of plants and animals that are unable to adapt to new natural living conditions. The phenomenon of the “greenhouse effect” is one of the main root causes of this actual problem, How global warming climate।

2 Ozone holes

The environmental problem of the ozone layer is no less scientifically complex. As is known, life on Earth appeared only after the protective ozone layer of the planet was formed, covering it from harsh ultraviolet radiation. For many centuries there were no signs of trouble. However, in recent decades, intensive destruction of this layer has been noticed.

4 Desertification

Under the influence of living organisms, water and air on the surface layers of the lithosphere

The most important ecosystem, thin and fragile, is gradually formed - the soil, which is called the “skin of the Earth”. This is the guardian of fertility and life. A handful of good soil contains millions of microorganisms that maintain fertility.
It takes a century for a soil layer 1 centimeter thick to form. It can be lost in one field season. According to geologists, before people began to engage in agricultural activities, graze livestock and plow land, rivers annually carried about 9 billion tons of soil into the World Ocean. Nowadays this amount is estimated at approximately 25 billion tons 2 .

Soil erosion, a purely local phenomenon, has now become universal. In the United States, for example, about 44% of cultivated land is susceptible to erosion. In Russia, unique rich chernozems with a humus content (organic matter that determines soil fertility) of 14–16%, which were called the citadel of Russian agriculture, disappeared. In Russia, the area of the most fertile lands with a humus content of 10–13% has decreased by almost 5 times 2 .

A particularly difficult situation arises when not only the soil layer is demolished, but also the parent rock on which it develops. Then the threshold of irreversible destruction comes, and an anthropogenic (that is, man-made) desert arises.

One of the most formidable, global and fleeting processes of our time is the expansion of desertification, the decline and, in the most extreme cases, the complete destruction of the biological potential of the Earth, which leads to conditions similar to those of a natural desert.

Natural deserts and semi-deserts occupy more than 1/3 of the earth's surface. These lands are home to about 15% of the world's population. Deserts are natural formations that play a certain role in the overall ecological balance of the planet’s landscapes.

As a result of human activity, by the last quarter of the twentieth century, over 9 million square kilometers of deserts had appeared, and in total they had already covered 43% of the total land area 2.

In the 1990s, desertification began to threaten 3.6 million hectares of drylands.

This represents 70% of potentially productive drylands, or ¼ of the total land surface area, and does not include the area of natural deserts. About 1/6 of the world's population suffers from this process 2.

According to UN experts, current losses of productive land will lead to the fact that by the end of the century the world may lose almost 1/3 of its arable land 2 . Such a loss, at a time of unprecedented population growth and increasing food demand, could be truly disastrous.

5 Hydrosphere pollution

One of the most valuable resources of the Earth is the hydrosphere - oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, glaciers of the Arctic and Antarctic. There are 1385 million kilometers of water reserves on Earth and very little, only 25% fresh water suitable for human life. And despite

These are people who are very crazy about this wealth and destroy it without a trace, indiscriminately, polluting the water with various wastes. Humanity uses mainly fresh water for its needs. Their volume is slightly more than 2% of the hydrosphere, and the distribution of water resources around the globe is extremely uneven. Europe and Asia, where 70% of the world's population lives, contain only 39% river waters. The total consumption of river waters is increasing from year to year in all regions of the world. It is known, for example, that with beginning of the XXI century, fresh water consumption has increased 6 times, and in the next few decades it will increase by at least another 1.5 times.

The lack of water is aggravated by the deterioration of its quality. Water used in industry, agriculture and everyday life returns to water bodies in the form of poorly treated or completely untreated wastewater. Thus, pollution of the hydrosphere occurs primarily as a result of the discharge of industrial,

agricultural and domestic wastewater.
According to scientists' calculations, soon diluting this same wastewater may require 25 thousand cubic kilometers of fresh water, or almost all the actually available resources of such runoff. It is not difficult to guess that it is precisely this, and not the growth of direct water intake main reason worsening fresh water problems. It is worth noting that wastewater containing mineral residues, human waste products enrich water bodies nutrients, which in turn leads to the development of algae, and as a consequence to waterlogging of the reservoir. Currently, many rivers are heavily polluted - the Rhine, Danube, Seine, Ohio, Volga, Dnieper, Dniester and others. Urban runoff and large landfills often cause water pollution with heavy metals and hydrocarbons. As heavy metals accumulate in marine food chains, their concentrations can reach lethal levels, as occurred after a large industrial release of mercury into Japanese coastal waters near the city of Minimata. The increased concentration of this metal in the tissues of fish led to the death of many people and animals who ate the contaminated product. Increased doses of heavy metals, pesticides and petroleum products can significantly weaken protective properties organisms. The concentration of carcinogens in the North Sea is currently reaching enormous levels. Huge reserves of these substances are concentrated in the tissues of dolphins,

being the final link in the food chain. Countries located on the North Sea coast have recently been implementing a set of measures aimed at reducing, and in the future completely stopping, the dumping and burning of toxic waste into the sea. In addition, humans transform the waters of the hydrosphere through the construction of hydraulic structures, in particular reservoirs. Large reservoirs and canals have a serious negative impact on the environment: they change the groundwater regime in the coastal zone, affect soils and plant communities, and, ultimately, their water areas are occupied by large plots fertile lands.

Nowadays, pollution of the world's oceans is growing at an alarming rate. Moreover, not only sewage pollution plays a significant role here, but also the entry into the waters of the seas and oceans large quantity petroleum products. In general, the most polluted inland seas are: Mediterranean, Northern, Baltic, Japanese, Java, and Biscay,

Persian and Mexican Gulfs. Pollution of seas and oceans occurs through two channels. Firstly, sea and river boats pollute water with waste generated as a result of operational activities, products internal combustion in engines. Secondly, pollution occurs as a result of accidents when toxic substances, most often oil and petroleum products, enter the sea. Diesel engines ships emit harmful substances into the atmosphere, which subsequently settle on the surface of the water. On tankers, before each regular loading, containers are washed to remove the remains of previously transported cargo, while the washing water, and with it the remaining cargo, is most often dumped overboard. In addition, after delivering the cargo, the tankers are sent to the new loading point empty; in this case, for proper navigation, the tankers are filled with ballast water, which becomes contaminated with oil residues during the voyage. Before loading, this water is also poured overboard. As for legislative measures to control oil pollution during the operation of oil terminals and the discharge of ballast water from oil tankers, they were adopted much earlier, after the danger of large spills became obvious

Such methods (or possible ways to solve the problem) include the emergence and activity of various kinds "green" movements and organizations. Besides the notorious « Green PeaWithe'A",distinguished not only by the scope of its activities, but also, at times, by the noticeable extremism of its actions, as well as similar organizations that directly carry out environmental protection

e shares, there is another type of environmental organizations - structures that stimulate and sponsor environmental activities - such as the Wildlife Fund, for example. All environmental organizations exist in one of the forms: public, private state or mixed type organizations.

In addition to various types of associations that defend civilization’s rights to the nature it is gradually destroying, there are a number of state or public environmental initiatives in the sphere of solving environmental problems. For example, environmental legislation in Russia and other countries of the world, various international agreements or the “Red Books” system.

The International "Red Book" - a list of rare and endangered species of animals and plants - currently includes 5 volumes of materials. In addition, there are national and even regional “Red Books”.

Among the most important ways to solve environmental problems, most researchers also highlight the introduction of environmentally friendly, low- and non-waste technologies, the construction of treatment facilities, the rational location of production and the use of natural resources.

Although, undoubtedly - and this is proven by the entire course of human history - the most important direction for solving the environmental problems facing civilization is the increase in human ecological culture, serious environmental education and upbringing, everything that eradicates the main environmental conflict - the conflict between the savage consumer and the rational an inhabitant of a fragile world that exists in the human mind.

More than four decades have passed since the first Earth Day, but there are still a huge number of environmental problems in the world that require solutions. Did you know that each of us can make our own contribution? We'll tell you which one.

Changing of the climate

97% of climate scientists believe that climate change is ongoing - and greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of this process.

Until now, political will has not been strong enough to initiate a massive transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.

Perhaps more extreme weather events - drought, wildfires, floods - will be more convincing to policymakers. However, each of us can help reduce carbon emissions.

For example, make your home more energy efficient, choose a bicycle more often instead of a car, generally walk more and use public transport.

Pollution

Air pollution and climate change are closely related because they have the same causes. Greenhouse gases cause global temperatures to rise and also degrade air quality, which is clearly visible in large cities.

And this is a direct threat to people. The most striking examples are smog in Beijing and Shanghai. Recently, by the way, American scientists discovered a relationship between air pollution in China and the intensification of storms over the Pacific Ocean.

Soil pollution is another serious problem. For example, in China, almost 20% of arable land is contaminated with toxic heavy metals. Poor soil ecology threatens food security and poses a risk to human health.

The main factor in soil pollution is the use of pesticides and other harmful chemical substances. And here, too, it’s worth starting with yourself - if possible, grow vegetables and herbs on your own summer cottage or buy farm or organic products.

Deforestation

Trees absorb CO2. They allow us to breathe, and therefore to live. But forests are disappearing at a catastrophic rate. It is estimated that 15% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation of the Earth.

Cutting down trees threatens both animals and people. The loss of tropical forests is of particular concern to ecologists because about 80% of the world's tree species grow in these areas.

About 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down over the past 50 years to make way for cattle ranching. This is a double whammy for the climate, since livestock produces methane, one of the main causes of climate change.

What can you do in such a situation? Support the Rainforest Alliance or other similar projects. They are pushing to stop using paper. You can refuse paper towels, for example. Instead, use washable fabric towels.

Plus, always check the labels to make sure you're only using FSC-certified wood products. You can also boycott products created by palm oil companies that contribute to deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Water shortage

The world's population is increasing every day, and climate change is causing more droughts, water shortages are becoming more important issue. Only 3% of the world's water supplies are fresh, and 1.1 billion people today lack access to safe drinking water.

The increasing incidence of drought in Russia, the USA and other developed countries suggests that water shortage is not only a problem in third world countries. So use water rationally: turn off the tap while brushing your teeth, take a shower no longer than 4 minutes, install oxygen mixers at home, etc.

Biodiversity loss

Humans today are actively invading the habitats of wild animals, which is causing a rapid loss of biodiversity on the planet. This threatens food security, public health and global stability as a whole.

Climate change is also one of the main reasons for the loss of biodiversity - some species of animals and plants are generally unable to adapt to changing temperatures.

According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), biodiversity has declined by 27% over the past 35 years. Every time you shop in a store, pay attention to eco-labels - manufacturing products with such marks does not harm the environment. In addition, do not forget about the garbage - recycle recyclable materials.

Soil erosion

Industrial methods Agriculture lead to soil erosion and degradation of land resources. The result is less productive arable land, water pollution, increased flooding and desertification of soils.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, half of the Earth's topsoil has been lost in the last 150 years. Each of us can support the sustainable development of agriculture - to do this, buy organic products, avoid products with GMOs and chemical additives.

Every person contributes to environmental pollution. We, without even thinking about the consequences, throw garbage anywhere, buy all the technological rubbish of our “civilization,” use chemicals, poisons, and so on, thereby polluting NATURE.

The environmental problems of the modern world are diverse. Probably, not many of us today will remember the long-noisy environmental disaster with an insecticide such as “Thiodan” that occurred in 1969 on the Rhine River, when, due to 50 kilograms of a substance that had lain in the river for 2 years, a multimillion-dollar fish pestilence occurred, striking in its scale. Perhaps our fathers remember the terrible environmental disaster in Seveso, when, as a result of the release of a cloud of dioxin at a chemical factory, the city was an uninhabited zone for about a year and a half. We even witnessed how the Aral Sea disappeared from the surface of the planet in 20 years...

Both accidents and disasters occur suddenly and although, as a rule, they are local in nature, their environmental consequences can spread over long distances and cover large areas. At the same time, the greatest danger is caused by disasters at radiation facilities (nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel processing plants, etc.), chemical plants, oil and gas pipelines, maritime and railway transport, reservoir dams, etc.

The largest man-made disaster in the 20th century occurred in April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine). Wherein total number casualties exceeded 9 million people, 29 died from acute radiation sickness. total area radioactive contamination along the 0.2 mR/h isoline (more than 10 times more than the norm) amounted to about 0.2 million km 2 already in the first days of the accident; it covered many regions of Ukraine, Belarus, as well as a number of regions of Russia.

The scale of the disasters is so terrible for the planet’s ecosystem that humanity will pay for its mistakes for centuries, if he doesn't kill himself much sooner, as it tried to do in 1979 in Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk). Then the release of anthrax spores killed several hundred people within a radius of 3 kilometers from the source of the spread - the Institute of Virology.

We are killing ourselves, we are destroying the flora and fauna of the planet, polluting the water, soil and air, which are necessary as a subsistence minimum for all living things inhabiting our planet, we are creating for ourselves more and more new ones. ecological problems.

The nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945 brought not only a humanitarian but also an environmental disaster. According to analysts, the number of deaths by 1980 exceeded 98,000 human lives, and continues to collect its terrible toll in the form of cancerous tumors and increased levels of radiation, decimating the population. But it is unlikely that this example taught a person to carefully handle something that could cause his destruction. No, we didn't stop there. In 1979, at the Three Mile Island reactor in the United States, radioactive gases were released into the atmosphere due to system failure and operator negligence. This list numbers in the dozens. various examples environmental disasters on the planet, alternately polluting the environment, and today it seems that there is no stopping this vicious circle. Having destroyed everything around a person, he himself will disappear as a result.

Too few people understand the true danger of what is happening on our planet now...

We ourselves are hostages of the age of technology. After all, everyone knows that the development of an electric car, which could replace cars with internal combustion engines, was completely ruined by the purchase of patents for this development by oil company tycoons. Why kill the oil business, which brings in hundreds of billions of dollars annually, if you can skim the “cream” without investing in new lines for assembling environmentally friendly cars.

Each of us knows that September 1 is the Day of Knowledge, but how many people know that this day is also Day of Remembrance for Species Destroyed by Humans? Every 60 minutes, approximately three species of flora and fauna disappear on the planet. It is easy to calculate that for the complete destruction of all life on earth, including plants, it will take only about sixteen and a half thousand years. By the mid-twentieth century alone, we had exterminated 67 species of mammals and 142 species of birds.

In 2006, the notorious film An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In November, box office receipts exceeded $20 million, and the film itself today ranks fourth in the world in terms of box office receipts during the existence of documentary films. In 2007, the film received two Oscars, in the categories “documentary” and “song for a film,” and the American Film Institute named it one of the biggest events of the year. The film is based on events that tell about global environmental problems on our planet.

Today, the planet's weighted average temperature has risen by approximately 0.7°C since the start of the technological Industrial Revolution. But, oddly enough, large share This temperature has increased in just the last 50-60 years. And this wave is caused by human activity, namely the release of gases into the atmosphere called modern society greenhouse effect.

The consumption of natural resources has reached colossal proportions. But have any of us ever wondered how long this natural well-being will last? How many more environmental disasters can our Mother Earth endure? After all, anyway, sometime in the distant future, plants and factories will have to be repurposed to consume new types of fuel as a result of the depletion of natural ones, so why not do it now? Why not start saving today, without waiting until the mined-out depths of our planet begin to settle and environmental problems destroy humanity?

Unfortunately, due to the change of generations of mankind, the terrible pages of history are quickly erased from the memory of our ancestors. People do not have time to learn the hard lessons of terrible environmental disasters that have claimed millions of human lives due to the negligent negligence of technicians, operators, drivers, and electricians.

The planet endures for now, sometimes snarling, then it meekly endures the cutting down of forests, the burning of fields, the devastation of its subsoil, giving nothing in return except terrible scars on its body rich in black soil. It freezes while testing new types of weapons that can, with cold carelessness, make it an uninhabited desert, the same as dozens of sister stars in the galaxies, not storing any spark of life, monotonously making their silent path. But how, one still wants to believe that a person can realize the depth of that ecological abyss, from the edge of which he is just one wrong step. It's not too late today. There is still a chance that we will learn to live in symbiosis with our “green home”. With that amazing, beautiful globe that gave birth to billions of subspecies of creatures living side by side with a subspecies called man. How we want all our environmental problems, disasters and misfortunes to remain in the past.

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