Chapter 22, Problem 11WIO

Summary Introduction

To explain:

The reason to a person that buying wine closed with a natural cork is more environment friendly than buying wine closed with a screw cap.

Concept introduction:

There is environmental degradation everywhere and man is the root cause of this adverse situation. The activities of man so called anthropogenic activities like burning of coal, petroleum and other fossil fuels worsens this situation and it gets worse by forest fires, cutting of forests and many such deteriorating activities of man. Emphasis and stress should be laid on minimizing the loss to natural resources rather than amplifying them.