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 estimation the most pressing global environmental issue facing us today is the rapid increase in population. I think every aspect of the on-going problems in this world leads us back to population. All the water, food, environmental, disease, money etc. issues have a population explanation. The more the world is populated the demand for the essentials of life increase and health factors, especially for underdeveloped countries become scarce. To meet the demands of the people, factories must work harder and for longer periods of time, uses of transportation increases, next thing you know we are having double or more trouble with pollution. In some places maybe there is space for an extra 25,000 people, but in other countries such an increase will definitely put sanitation at risk.

We barely have enough resources to provide for those here now and have waste and sanitation issues; increasing population is just deepening us in a dark hole. If a wealthy benefactor like the Rockefeller Foundation gave me $100 billion to address a global problem I would allocate all funds to dealing with the population issue so to lessen bigger issues from worsening or developing. I would not know where to begin illustrating in great detail how this would work but I think that dealing with this issue would help us to better the other issues growing around us.