Joan Ganz Cooney says that "Sesame Street" producers do not pretend that a television show can solve the problems of the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Let's do the research to try to fix the problems rather than changing the whole diet of the human race."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Poverty and unemployment remain major problems, as do the lack of good roads, good schools and health care.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

When Bill McKibben wrote "The End of Nature" 20 years ago, he thought that if he simply pointed out ecological problems, people would do something about them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

And if you don't kill us I'll do my best to protect you.'" Swan has kept the promise, his eyes opened to environmental problems made worse by a warming climate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

And even more fundamentally than that, before we get too far down the road of fixing certain problems, how do we do so before we actually identify what those problems are,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

She says sometimes parents do not listen to their children when they have problems. She says she just wants to tell people to stop hitting their children and to send them to school.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22