12-U1D2 - Reflect on some of the areas where you feel you are using your own cultural boundaries appropriately and some areas where you would like to make improvements

GLOBAL ISSUES

WEALTH AND POVERTY

• The millennium development goals foreign aid and development • Approaches to distribution of wealth: market, state, civil society • The effect of geography on wealth and poverty • Positive and/or negative aspects of globalization

POPULATION

• Causes of the population explosion • The changing population of the world • Population growth and development • Development and population growth • Government policies (controlling or promoting population growth)

FOOD

• World food production • The extent of world hunger • Causes of world hunger • How food affects development • How development affects food • The green revolution • Government food policies

ENERGY The energy crisis - responses by various governments to the energy crisis:

• The United States • Western Europe • Japan • China • Other

P r i n t C r e d i t s

THE ENVIRONMENT Air:

• Smog • Airborne lead • Acid rain • The ozone layer • Global warming

Land:

• Solid waste • Toxic waste • Deforestation • Government response to waste • Industry response to waste

Water

Personal environments (workplace and home)

Natural resources:

• Resource efficiency • Recycling • Substituting • Reducing needs • Overdevelopment • Mining low-grade ores

Extinction (species and cultures)

Environmental politics

TECHNOLOGY

• Benefits of technology • Short-term versus long-term benefits • Consequences of technology • Inappropriate use of technology • War(nuclear war and beyond)

ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

• Nuclear weapons • Global climate change • Overpopulation • Resource depletion • Triage and life boat ethics • Growth • Sustainable development • The carrying capacity of the earth • Optimum size of Earth's population • Future food supplies • Alternative/sustainable/organic

CREDITS Subject Matter Expert: Interactive Design:

Instructional Designer:

Project Manager:

Global Issues

Jay Austin

Felicity Pearson

Kyle Huppert

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