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  • adjective Capable of being polluted.

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pollute +‎ -able

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Examples

  • All these considerations add some credence to the point of view which says that we should not worry about the spaceman economy at all, and that we should just go on increasing the GNP and indeed the gross world product, or GWP, in the expectation that the problems of the future can be left to the future, that when scarcities arise, whether this is of raw materials or of pollutable reservoirs, the needs of the then present will determine the solutions of the then present, and there is no use giving ourselves ulcers by worrying about problems that we really do not have to solve.

    The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (historical) 2007

  • (I reckon all men are like that eventhough they smoke like the unstoppable highly pollutable locomotive.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2001

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