Progress in the modern environmental movement has been uneven in many key areas: biodiversity loss/species extinction, habitat degradation, spreading invasive species, ocean acidification, poor air quality, unhealthy water supplies, insufficiently-tested chemical exposures, lack of adequate sanitation, accelerating waste generation and disposal, litter, urban sprawl, fossil fuel depletion, climate change, storm/earthquake vulnerability, malnutrition, topsoil loss, food shortages, obesity, unsheltered living conditions, forced migration, cultural loss, and scenery defilement.
Education has spurred widespread desire for improvement in all of these areas, but to date, current solutions have not kept pace with increasing needs. Hence, better solutions are VERY much desired and needed now.