What do I believe to be the top environmental issue today?
Overall waste: Especially here in Florida, the amount of garbage bags is disproportionate to the size of the recycle bins. Perfectly good things are put out with the trash on a constant basis, just to go take up room in the landfill. Options exist to re purpose those usable items like donating to charity or utilizing Freecycle in your area. To date, Freecycle has prevented the waste of over 400 million pounds of materials. http://www.environmentpoint.com/freecycle-recycle-used/.
Our population alone is so large that we are unable to sustain our land at our current waste rates. Even some places are outsourcing waste to third world countries, where children can be seen rummaging through old computer parts and industrial waste.
This scenario was provided to me:
"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?"My answer: I would allocate the funds. While general waste is my top concern, there are many others that have the potential of becoming catastrophic issues. Loss of biodiversity and climate change are just among the few. Being a forensics and not a finance major, I am unsure of the specific division that should take place for funds, but I do know that not all of our eggs should be in one basket.
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