Bureaucrats just can t handle such problems. Al Gore wrote that only advanced science, and a free and prosperous society, can tackle ecological problems. Causes Each society s character has an important impact on the ecology. Racism causes eco-troubles as well. National and race hatreds foster artificial divisions of the land and seas.
Wars cause an awful mess, with the land itself among the trampled victims.
Saddam Hussein s destruction of Kuwait s oil wells was only the most egregious example. Such divisions hamper effective solutions, as with boundary-crossing rivers. America s polluted maquilladora border factories are another example. Sexual immorality has an impact. People who are absorbed in lust have little energy for causes such as the environment.