ABSTRACT
The range of suggestions and comments by Soviet and American geographers on the question of how the profession can contribute to the resolution of environmental problems is great and varied. American geographers also recommend that more emphases be placed on environmental issues in graduate training programs and that geographers become more active in international formulas dealing with environmental issues. The experience analyzing interconnections between national and regional scales and general and local regularities by geographers may also be used to study global problems. Global problems require that people be broadly educated as never before, that they be capable of original thinking and of working easily with diverse material "ranging from geography to ideology." American geographers need to become far more knowledgeable about other countries if they are to help solve global problems. The measures necessary for international cooperation in solving global problems are obvious.
