Intro - Globalization and Sustainability

Key Issues
To what extent has the expansion of economic globalization affected people's lives?
How are globalization and sustainability related?
Have efforts to promote sustainability been successful?

Within this lesson students will have the opportunity to explore various understandings of sustainability. Students will also discover the relationship between sustainability and the ecological footprints of Canada and other countries. For example, as students investigate activities such as global shipping and shipbreaking industries they will learn how globalization affects sustainability.