To What Extent Does Globalization Contribute to Sustainable Prosperity for All People?

Learn the TermsRefer to Chapter 12 for the answers

sustainable prosperity

sustainable development

Privatization

climate change

Enabling the sale of government owned industries to private businesses.

Meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

A new balance of economic competition with economic cooperation that promotes the efficient use and sharing of natural resources, technologies and capital at the local, national and global levels.

Long-term change in the earth's climate, due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. Melting glaciers imply that life in the Arctic is affected by climate change.

What is Sustainable Prosperity?

Here are a couple of definitions…

Sustainable prosperity… In short, “Sustainable prosperity” would come as a result

of sustainable development that enables all human beings to live with their basic needs met, with their dignity acknowledged, and with abundant opportunity to pursue lives of satisfaction and happiness, all without risk of denying others in the present and the future the ability to do the same. This means not just preventing further degradation of earth’s systems, but actively restoring those systems to full health.

World Watch Institute How can this be achieved?

Aboriginal Values

Original religions of many indigenous peoples Original religions of many indigenous peoples believe human beings are directly linked to the believe human beings are directly linked to the environment both physically and spiritually.environment both physically and spiritually.

The arrival of European settlers upset the The arrival of European settlers upset the harmony between human beings and nature. harmony between human beings and nature. eg. seek short term benefits by extracting eg. seek short term benefits by extracting

natural resources at rates, and in amounts, natural resources at rates, and in amounts, greater than can be naturally replaced. Such greater than can be naturally replaced. Such new demands place new pressures on the new demands place new pressures on the fragile ecology and threaten the long-term fragile ecology and threaten the long-term future of humankind. future of humankind.

How does globalization reduce Sustainable Prosperity?

Two examples are provided on the next slide…

Greenland’s Melting Glaciers

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/multimedia/videos/Investigating-Greenlands-Melting-Glaciers-/

The 11th Hour http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7IBG2V98IBY

How does globalization contribute to Sustainable Prosperity?

What can we do to sustain prosperity?

Give Earth a Hand…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9MFiWXR8M&feature=player_embedded

Population connection… http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=9_9SutNmfFk

UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) – Multimedia clip

Hope in a Changing Climate (Branching out for a Green Economy)

http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/multimedia/

This week’s assignment

We have the largest ecological footprint that we must change if we hope to achieve sustainable prosperity.

Create and briefly explain a list of tips or changes every individual can make to help improve or reduce damage to our environment. (Be sure to explain each of your tips by telling how they will help to sustain the environment).

Unit 2/3 Test

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