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The Global Environment - An Emerging World View

The Global Environment - An Emerging World View
Reading Assignment:
Article 2 “Global Warming Battlefields: How climate Change Threatens Security?” on pages 16-22 in the Annual Editions (11/12) textbook.
As you read, consider the following discussion points.                                                             
Try to reconcile the "development" with the "sustainable" in the industry and communities.
Development with capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment.
Best way know to help the poor today; "economic growth" has to be handled with care otherwise it may end up with a degraded and devastated natural environment.
Every generation should leave water, air, and soil resources as pure and unpolluted as when it came on earth!
Win-win strategies for environmental issues, would it be possible?
To help both economy and environment, environmentally harmful subsidies need to be reconsidered.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature "largest conservation group", Greens and businesses do not have the same objective but they can find common ground!
2002 UN World Summit on sustainable development in South Africa  - Johannesburg? Did it contribute any useful actions and policies?
Kyoto Protocol (1997, Japan) a UN treaty on climate change/global warming  to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions 5% below of 1990 levels by 2012; what was the bitter test in many mouths in Kyoto?
Two areas where concerns about human health and environmental overlap: improving access for the poor to cleanser energy and safe drinking water!
India’s leader Mahatma Gandhi’s testimonial about industrial revolution in Asia? "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialization after the manner of the west…It took UK half of the resources of the plant to  achieve their prosperity, so how many planets will a country like India require?".
Economic growth comparison of China versus India.

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