Instructions: 
Read the following Discussion question carefully, then submit an original answer.  Your answer should be at least a few sentences to a paragraph in length.  There is no “right” or “wrong” answer, but your opinion should be well-reasoned and based on fact.  (no references needed) this is just an opinion…

Although Florida is not heavily industrialized, over-population, over-development, and destruction of natural resources have made environmental issues crucial to the state’s future.  How have environmental issues changed in Florida since the 1970s?  In the past forty years, have environmentalists been at all successful in their efforts to preserve the state’s unique natural setting?  How and why or why not?