Please answer these seperately. About 100-150 words each. Thank you! Please also provide me with references
- Suppose you live near a coastal area and a company wants to use a fairly large area of coastal marshland for an aquaculture operation. If you were an elected local official, would you support or oppose such a project? Explain. What safeguards or regulations would you impose on the operation?
- In 2009, environmental analyst Lester R. Brown estimated that reforesting the earth and restoring the earth’s degraded rangelands would cost about $15 billion a year. Suppose the United States, the world’s most affluent country, agreed to put up half of this money, at an average annual cost of $25 per American citizen. Would you support doing this? Explain. What other part or parts of the federal budget would you decrease to come up with these funds?