What is the core reason for many of today's environmental problems?

A. dependence on nuclear power

B. air pollution

C. water pollution

D. rapid pollution growthWhat is the core reason for many of today's environmental problems?D. Rapid pollution growth (or population growth, if that's what you meant)



Air and water pollution are just forms of pollution that have been getting worse because we've been using more and more bad stuff in civilization because we need more and more stuff to support a growing population. Despite the press that nuclear power gets, with the significant exception of the Scandinavian countries, most other places around the world get the majority of their energy from the burning of fossil fuels.



Since I have a little soapbox - nuclear power is the worst form of energy possible. I would build 100 new coal-fired plants before I'd build a single nuclear plants. They aren't clean, despite what their proponents say. They put out just as much pollution as anything else, it just happens to be in the form of highly radioactive solids and liquids - that we have nothing to do with but stick them somewhere and hope no one notices and nothing bad happens to them. Further, you cannot make a "safe" nuclear plant. When you are splitting atoms, it is a dangerous game, and one that may at anytime meltdown and explode like Chernobyl, which horribly contaminated tens of thousands of square miles of what had been very productive forests and agricultural regions - not to mention direct death by radiation exposure, and slow, lingering deaths through various cancers, etc., resulting from chronic exposure.



Go ahead, look around at just our plants right here in the US, and find out how many times a *year* they have some kind of leak of radiation into the atmosphere... all covered up with, "It's an insignificant amount."



Huh.



Sorry, yes, the answer is D.What is the core reason for many of today's environmental problems?definitely D. (I assume that's POPULATION growth?)



The topic that is NEVER discussed in the constant bombardment about our 'carbon footprints' or 'helping 3rd world countries decrease their technological progress' while simultaneously trying to help increase their population...