The Impacts of Countries on Environmental Sustainability

In what ways does globalization create issues for environmental sustainability?

Is environmental loss the price of globalization? Are developed countries sacrificing prosperity for all people in order to maintain economic systems of capitalism and free trade? Are less-developed countries limiting their own prosperity because of the inability to maintain environmental sustainability within their own borders? Damage to the land and water are the most visible signs of environmental loss. Severe weather is evidence of climate change. What else results from environmental loss?

environmental sustainability: the condition of maintaining the current state of the environment without further damage in the future

 

 
Read

Read “Food for All” on pages 305 and 306 in Perspectives on Globalization.

How does the globalization of agriculture create issues for environmental sustainability? Record your key ideas in your Notebook.

Research

Choose one developed country and one less-developed country. Research the information necessary to create a comparison between the two countries.

  1. What ranks the country as a developed or a less-developed country?
  1. What are indicators of the prosperity of each country? Keep in mind that prosperity includes aspects of life (both financial and other) that create satisfaction for the people of the country.

Record your key ideas in your Notebook.

Continue to research the selected countries.

  1. What type of economy does each country have?
  2. What is the Genuine Progress Index ranking of each country?
  3. Research two key environmental issues for each country.

genuine progress index: an indicator of the sustainable prosperity of a country through the measure of the value of positive non-economic factors, such as volunteerism and education, against negative factors, such as pollution and crime

Assignment

Please complete The Impacts of Countries on Environmental Sustainability Forum Assignment at this point. You will need to have completed the above research to successfully complete this assignment.