Environmental disasters

There are about a million small miners whose uncontrolled activities are causing a lot of damage and there are also around 300.000 to 400.000 ha (750,000 to 1,000,000 acres) deforested each year. So what is to be done? The magnitude and urgency of the problem require some real out-of-the-box thinking. (Perhaps something like the suggestion that there might be better alternatives than hybrid cars, and that proposal I include in the chapter on environment)