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?
In my opinion the most pressing global environmental issue facing us today would probably be the damaging effects on the ozone due mostly to carbon emissions. It seems like researchers and scientists keep telling the public that we have to get better emissions on vehicles and factories. We also need to not burn on our properties due to the carbon emissions. They say it keeps affecting the ozone and that is what is leading to global warming and the melting of the ice caps and the desalinization of the oceans and so on and so forth, it is all a chain reaction.
I think with the $100 billion a large chunk would go towards alternative fuel research. The technology is out there it just needs to be tweaked for commercial use. Some would go towards buying companies who refuse to make their manufacturing plants run more efficiently. Some would go towards protecting certain natural resources that are being endangered by this epidemic.
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