Should post-industrial cities re-industrialize? What does the current hyper-reliance of urban mass-consumption on transoceanic shipping mean for shipping traffic, and what does this shipping traffic mean for ocean pollution? 1/ 9

What does the increased shipping traffic mean for the dredging of shipping lanes, or for emissions from gas-powered container ships? Can those ships be nuclear-powered instead and would we want them to be? 2/ 9

Can they be solar-powered, and how many batteries are needed to make the ships solar-powered, and what minerals are needed to make the proper kinds of batteries, and where will those minerals come from? 3/ 9

Will they come from the bottom of the sea, and would the bottomfeeding fish prefer their habitat be turned into solar panel batteries or that their habitat suffer from maritime oil spills? 5/ 9

Should extended human family networks be held together through constant plane flights between distant cities? What does the reliance of geographically expansive international family networks on air travel do to air traffic? 6/ 9

Should extended family networks be encouraged to limit themselves to the range of a train, rather than the range of a plane, since trains pollute a lot less than trains? 7/ 9

Should there be a train bridge over the Bering Strait, so that Eurasia/America travel and trade goes by train rather than by container ship and airplane? 8/9

What does it mean that a society which talks constantly about environment and economy lacks a philosophical system for answering or even addressing these questions? 9/9