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

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

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What is Sustainable Prosperity?
Here are a couple of definitions
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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 earths
  systems, but actively restoring those systems to
  full health.
• World Watch Institute
• How can this be achieved?

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How does globalization reduce Sustainable
Prosperity?
Two examples are provided on the next slide
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Greenlands Melting Glaciers

• http//www.greenpeace.org/international/en/multime
  dia/videos/Investigating-Greenlands-Melting-Glacie
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• The 11th Hour
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v7IBG2V98IBY

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How does globalization contribute to Sustainable
Prosperity?
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What can we do to sustain prosperity?
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Give Earth a Hand

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEp9MFiWXR8Mfeature
  player_embedded

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UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
Multimedia clip

• Hope in a Changing Climate
• (Branching out for a Green Economy)
• http//www.unep.org/NewsCentre/multimedia/

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This weeks 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).

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Unit 2/3 Test

• Written response test
• Format on next power point