Article: 'Hot Topics'


Earth Explorer
02-01-1995
'Hot Topics': A Search for Solutions

At first glance, finding solutions to our environmental concerns may seem easy. Blue whales are disappearing? Pass laws to protect them. Fossil fuels are polluting the atmosphere? Shift to solar energy. People are cutting down the rainforests? Give them other ways to make a living.
In reality, finding workable solutions to most such problems is far from simple. Proposed solutions may involve great cost. They may require that large numbers of people change their customs and lifestyles. And the proposals may be well meaning but politically or technologically unrealistic.

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