Sunday, May 29, 2011

In your estimation, what is the most pressing global environmental issue facing us today? Why? If a wealthy benefactor like the Rockefeller Foundation gave you $100 billion to address a global problem, how would you allocate the funds? Would you dedicate 100% to the most pressing issue, or partition the money among many different issues?

Honestly, I dont know much about all of the global issues and which ones are more severe than others. After doing some research I would say that the most prevalent issues out there now is the humans factor on global warming, and the global natural resource comsumption. In some ways these two issues go hand in hand and if these two problem somehow become resolved, other local or national issues may find themselves in better shape as well. If I was given 100 billion dollars to fix the environmental problems in the world, I would use about 90% of that money to focus on those two problems and use the rest to address smaller issues that may not require as much money. 90 billion dollars is alot of money but considering the magnitude of the issues, it may not even fix the problem. We can only change the actions of us humans. The way the earth acts is totally uncontrollable. Global warming may never be controlled no matter how much money is spent focusing on it but money can be spent creating awareness, changing the way we burn fuels, changing the way we search for fuels, and changing the way we harvest crops.

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