What is "pollutions"

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I remembered Earth, with its pettiness, its greed and vanity, its smugness, its pretensions, its pollutions and poisons, its teeming, crowded, miserable populations, and its endemic fears, fears such as that of not having enough energy to spin the wheels of an exorbitant and largely unnecessary technology, and the fear, fully warranted, of the falling of the sword of a nuclear Damocles.

How far away seemed the familiar pollutions of the gray world I remembered.

Content against the brown breast of the planet, Hellmouth seemed to have been here always, here aloof from the strident clamor and pollutions of the flesh and the mind and the breath of the cities.