• Question: What is a serious environmental problem in America right now and if you had the power to stop it how would you use your skills to do so?

    Asked by shanelle001 to Michelle, Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by hahex.
    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Cap the leak.

      Cap the leak with some kind of fast growing, strong, designed biological material.

    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      In America, and the world generally, I think there are three serious environmental problems.

      1. Food security (being able to grow enough food to feed everybody)
      2. Energy security (being able to meet the energy needs of the planet – e.g. from oil or whatever)
      3. Climate change

      I don’t think my work is directly relevant to any of these areas, so I’d have to put on my superman cape and try and save the world that way.

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I suppose you mean the break in the oil pipe? I’d have to study engineering to come up with a proper way of plugging the hole unfortunatley it needs to be done much quicker than that would take me.

    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      With America being such a large land mass there is probably no single most serious environmental problem. There are natural disasters, different types of pollution and crop problems in some areas to name but a few. I don’t have any skills to help any of these problems but I am sure there are many other groups trying to address these issues.

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