Instead they focus on sophomoric framing of the controversy as an environmental problem but ignore the larger picture.
There is an environmental problem in terms of the food system we have.
When an environmental problem does have a solution, it is often counterintuitive.
"You can't solve an environmental problem through a temporary mass campaign, " he said, adding that environmentalists need to address people's attitude first and foremost.
Martin Palmer, of the British-based Alliance of Religions and Conservation, says faiths often have the clearest view of the social and economic aspects of an environmental problem.
The market, for profit businesses created to solve a social or environmental problem, are an essential part of the solution.
Malcolm Dowden, an environmental law specialist, points out another problem: government-sponsored flood defences in one area may shift floods downstream to other areas.
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Sometimes the problem is temporary, the result of an environmental insult like cigarette smoke or chemical fumes.
If there is an environmental disaster, he warns, it won't just be China's problem, it will be the world's problem.
The problem is that the Clinton Pentagon actually did produce a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement for an Alaskan missile defense system -- albeit one far larger (intended to house up to 100 interceptors) than the modest test facility President Bush proposes to build (involving only 5 interceptor silos).
So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about ways to solve the problem.
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