Green issues

Examines such recent issues surrounding food production for the world's growing population as the benefits and problems of fertilizers and pesticides, genetic engineering of crops, and overproduction.

Discusses our continually increasing population, its causes and consequences, and efforts by governments and individuals to control its growth.

Examines the problems of both industrial and domestic pollution, their effects on the environment, the issues of international control and responsibility, and the long-term hazards.

A look at such waste disposal problems as overflowing landfills and hazardous waste and possible solutions for them, primarily recycling.