Discussion: Environmental Protection and Change Despite everything we know about the impacts to our environment by things like deforestation, toxic chemicals, and dumping, these issues persist around the globe. Why is
Discussion: Environmental Protection and Change
Despite everything we know about the impacts to our environment by things like deforestation, toxic chemicals, and dumping, these issues persist around the globe. Why is there still so much left to be done in terms of protecting the environment and preventing illness from contaminated resources? In other words, what are the challenges to implementing sound, effective, and easily implementable international environmental policy? Be sure to cite the course materials (or outside, scholarly sources - be sure to cite them and/or provide the info) to make your argument.
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo8W5VHu5-s
https://www.iefworld.org/ddahl02c.htm
For Topic Thirteen Learning Module, please familiarize yourself with the following excerpts from chapter thirteen and fourteen of the text Global Problems, Global Solutions by Chirico (2018).
Global Problems, Global Solutions: Chapter Thirteen (pg 392 – 394 (until ‘Chemical Contaminants); 401 – 426 (skim the specifics, but mostly pay attention to and concentration of the types of depletion (water, land, forest, etc.)).
Global Problems, Global Solutions: Chapter Fourteen (pg 431 – 438 (browse “Evidence of Climate Change); 451 – 455 (from “The Environmental Regime))