In my estimation, the most pressing global environmental issue facing us today has to be pollution to our planet. I say this because pollution is an extremely broad term, pollution is a negative environmental impact of the coal industry. One major pollution issue that I would want to focus on would be water pollution. A few examples of water pollution, but certainly not all of them are ocean dumping, oil spills, fish kill, algal bloom, urban runoff and eutrophication. Water makes up about 70% of the Earth’s surface water, and is such a major resource that I can’t imagine any other pressing issue that we would need to focus on.
If benefactor like the Rockefeller Foundation gave me $100 billion to address this global problem I would certainly use all of the money to address the issue. Pollution is not just a single issue, nor is it only in one area of the planet. It spills over, and creates so many other issues that lead to even more issues in other areas. For example having urban runoff from farming, spraying pesticides and using fertilizer it then leads to the issue of algal bloom, which leads to red tide and also leads to eutrophication. The ocean has a very large food web, without the balance of the ocean, there is no balance on land.
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