Not only are solutions complex, but often they require a complete reevaluation of where the problem begins. Environmental problems are as numerous as they are sobering.
Trash covers the street, and air pollution darkens buildings, clothes, and lungs.
Littering is second nature. The land in the countryside retains barely a shadow of forest. As I stepped out of the airplane, I was immediately confronted with many of the environmental problems facing any third world city. I was arriving for a two-year stint in the Peace Corps, in an environmental management program, and it didn't take any stretch of the imagination to realize the huge challenge that lay before me. Given the enormity of the problems, it is easy to feel a bit overwhelmed.