Offers answers to some of the pressing environmental questions, providing a reminder of what we need to accomplish to achieve a sustainable environment. This work focuses on the environmental issues that polls show are most important to Americans and charts a course of action for protecting the environment.

It examines the ways we generate energy and the resulting global warming, air pollution, and ozone depletion (and its relationship to skin cancer), and offers a detailed account of nuclear energy production and the radioactive waste it generates. Most important, it outlines ways to deal with these problems - workable and reasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future.