International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage . The borderless nature of atmosphere and oceans inevitably resulted in the implication of pollution on a planetary level with the issue of global warming . Most recently the term persistent organic pollutant ( POP ) has come to describe a group of chemicals such as PBDEs and PFCs among others . Though their effects remain somewhat less well understood owing to a lack of experimental data , they have been detected in various ecological habitats far removed from industrial activity such as the Arctic , demonstrating diffusion and bioaccumulation after only a relatively brief period of widespread use
Bhopal disaster
Bhopal disaster
Pollution