{"id":111292,"date":"2009-12-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-most-expensive-environmental-disasters-of-the-decade-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-29T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:00:00","slug":"the-10-most-expensive-environmental-disasters-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/111292","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Most Expensive Environmental Disasters Of The Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past decade, environmental awareness has shot up dramatically all over the world, mainly due to the perception of global warming changing from a paranoid theory to “An Inconvenient Truth.”<\/p>\n

Environmental disasters have made for some big headlines during the past ten years, especially now that everyone wants to know the exact impact humans are having on the planet.<\/p>\n

But often times the economic cost that comes with these catastrophes gets buried under the details concerning the amount of pollution or the number of affected species associated with the incident.<\/p>\n

In this list, we remind you just how much it costs when humans have to clean up after the environmental messes we make.<\/p>\n

Check out the ten most expensive environmental disasters of the decade ><\/a><\/h2>\n

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