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The United Nations has continued to retain you as a consultant for a project that deals with climate and the environment. Most developed countries see the dangers of releasing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and are committed to climate policies that attain a carbon-free future in the next 30 years. They already see the damaging effects that this gas alone is having on the living conditions of crops, wildlife, and humans. As a result, many member states are dissatisfied with the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals for international development that they established in 2000. The member states see a substantial disconnect between several issues that developed and developing countries believe are priorities. For example, Burundi wants one of the goals to focus on food security, while Austria is adamant that a major global issue should be the negotiation of ceasefires in countries in the midst of civil wars. The UN wants you to work from the list below and prioritize two of the global community’s threats that it deems the most serious to environmental stability.
Instructions
Step 1
Select two threats. Listed below are eight issues that the UN feels pose the most significant threats to global security. Some of these apply to the Earth’s 7.7 billion people, while others are limited primarily to developing countries. Regardless of where these threats are concentrated, your job as a consultant is to identify two of them that you consider the most critical to the globe’s population.
Issue Options
- The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.
- Globalization.
- Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.
- A lack of access to technology.
- Civil war (NOT the U.S. Civil War).
- The rise in oceans’ levels.
- Covid-19 and the global pandemic.
- The dangers of poor countries remaining poor.
Step 2
Write a minimum of an 8 page persuasive paper about your two threats.
Write an introduction paragraph of at least one-half page in length identifying the two threats you have selected and the purpose of the paper. Then, for the two threats you chose:
- Identify the factors that make it such a serious risk to the global environment that you would choose to present it to the UN.
- Analyze the role that humans have played in aggravating this threat to the Earth’s environment.
- Suggest initiatives that the global community can take to mitigate the worst effects of this environmental threat.
- Write a conclusion paragraph of at least one-half page in length that summarizes your impressions of these risks for global stability.
Explanation & Answer
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Global Environmental Threats: Globalization and Poor Nations Remaining Poor
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Today, the list of global threats has been increasing– along with the impacts associated with
it, from socio-cultural, political, environmental, the global threats have been extensively overwhelming the society, and perhaps the whole of humanity per se. Two of the most strikingly and critical
global environmental threats are globalization and the dangers of poor countries remaining poor–
these concepts have certainly received numerous and varying points of view and arguments with regards to its benefits outweighing the risks and vice versa. Globalization has been viewed as a threat
to national security and sovereignty, despite adopting the idea of integration and interaction worldwide, while the issue with regards to poor countries remaining to be poor has also been attributed to
post-colonialism and even perhaps globalization itself.
Globalization and Why Poor Countries Remains Poor? : General Context
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized that globalization have always focused
on interconnectedness and 'interdependence' of several countries and people globally– claiming two
critical components makes the idea of globalization as such: "opening of international borders" for
exchange and distribution of goods, services, and cash flow from one nation to another, and the
changes in terms of policies and regulations that are necessary within a national, and international
level (WHO, 2021). Samimi et al. (2014) stated that globalization is not a new occurrence, considering that, for the past decades and even during these contemporary times, globalization has impacted
the lives of everybody, from economic, socio-political, and environmental aspects. Economic globalization pertains to the flow of goods and services across international borders; it also emphasizes
capital flows, reduced tariffs and barriers, extensive provision of technology, and even immigration
(Samimi et al., 2014).
In an aphorism by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The rich get richer, and the poor are get poorer,” the
general population have now observed the sad reality of such claim, given that many have observed
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economic stagnation and slow growth among poor nations. Wolla (2017) stated that even today,
economists are still debating why there are countries that are rich and countries that are poor, often
focusing on a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita– considered to be an indicator of a
nation's economic growth or even failure; while economists emphasized that the concept of property
rights, free and open markets, and the rule of law make paves the way for the provision of incentives
and opportunities to produce goods and services which likely affects businesses and people ( Wolla,
2017).
The threat of poor nations remaining poor has been widely recognized, and such distinct notions and theories were established, such as differences in pol...
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