Imagine you have the power to enact a single policy to protect the environment; what would it be and why?

A rapid response task force should be created to identify individuals & organizations most responsible for environmental degradation. These individuals should be taken into custody, tried for crimes against humanity, their assets and expropriated and their organizations placed in the hands of the workers. This task force would then be put in charge of overhauling the bloated DoD, holding individual leadership accountable for decisions that have negatively affected the environment. After dealing with the worst environmental offenders in the history of the world they will form an organizat…  Read moreion of secret police to identify and target environmental offenders.
All assets expropriated from environmental criminals will be invested in preservation and regeneration, education, and work programs that help disenfranchised agricultural workers rise as stewards in a de industrialized regenerative system.