Chapter 7, Section 2

1. The United States and Canada could manage their natural resources better by making strict seasons where fishing and hunting is illegal so that the are not under- or over-populated and put harsh legal punishments on poachers. They could find which kinds of trees could supply the best wood and which could grow the fastest and try to farm those, and they could make more natural reserves for trees and animals.

2. Causes of pollution in a region may be caused by lack of plants that can take in carbon dioxide to regulate the amount of fossil fuels that humans are burning and the carbon dioxide regularly exhaled by animals. They could also be chemical waste seeping into water supplies and into soil. These polution factors could result in global climate change, having less trees, thus less animals, and then less people.

Creative Writing: Due to the permafrost melting near the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, evergreens and other plants could grow around the pipe and start to breach its barrier which may cause the plants to eventually start sucking the moisture out the tube, causing the oil to be altered in one way or another, possibly making the oil unusable. Even if jobs were created to try to cut down the plants growing into the pipline, severe damage would have already come to the pipeline and hundreds of gallons of oil would be wasted.