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Accumulation of this highly toxic gas in confined areas can result in fatal exposures to humans. Globally, a major flux of sulfur to the atmosphere is in the form of volatile dimethyl sulfide, (CH3)2S, produced by marine microorganisms. The major atmospheric pollutant sulfur compound is SO2 released in the combustion of sulfur-containing fuels, especially coal. In the atmosphere, gaseous sulfur compounds are oxidized to sulfate, largely in the forms of H2SO4 (pollutant acid rain) and corrosive ammonium salts (NH4HSO4), which settle from the atmosphere or are washed out with precipitation.
Early hunter-gatherer and agricultural human societies made few demands upon Earth’s natural capital. 4, as the industrial revolution developed from around 1800, natural resources were abundant and production of material goods was limited largely by labor and the capacity of machines to process materials. But now, population is in excess, computerized machines have an enormous capacity to process materials, the economies of once impoverished countries including India and China are becoming highly industrialized, and the availability of natural capital is the limiting factor in production, including availability of natural resources, the vital life support ability of ecological systems, and the capacity of the natural environment to absorb the by-products of industrial production, most notably greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Although this enabled many diabetics to live normal lives, the process of getting the insulin was cumbersome, supply was limited, and the insulin from this source was not exactly the same as that made in the human body, which often caused the body to have an allergic response to it as a foreign protein. The transfer through recombinant DNA technology of the human gene for insulin production into prolific Escherichia coli bacteria has enabled large-scale production of human insulin by the bacteria.
