What will make people change their way of using energy and perhaps viewing the world?
a. They need to see a maximum to their material gains and the distribution of the costs.
b. There need to be laws that direct the behaviors of the people.
c. There needs to be more science conducted and presented to the masses.
d. None of these choices.
ANS: A
People want the benefit of their actions in full, but they want to share the costs. We need to remember
that we all share the world so the world is paying the costs of negative human activities on the
environment. Information can be found in the section Voyaging Combined with Science to Advance
Ocean Studies.
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