SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sustainable Development, Trae Tha Truth, World Wide Fund For Nature
25 Apr 2018
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A core capability for sociologists who wish to respond to the complex interconnected social, cultural, political, and economic challenges will be the ability to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to work with diverse perspectives. - mcintyre-mills, 2017. Chapter 14: social factors posing environmental challenges, growing awareness of environmental issues, environmental sociology, strategies. Chapter 15: definition of globalization, emergence of globalization, characteristics of globalisation, vision of globalization. Resources are used at a rate that exceeds sustainability. As a disposable society, canada creates 34 million tonnes of solid waste annually. An excess of products used for shot time and thrown away ( but i recycle ) urban sprawl requires the rapid conversion. Misleading us: marketers claim that products are environmentally friendly or green. Provides a justification for consumers to consume at their existing pace (313-314) 2010 - 95% of green products committed one of the seven sins of greenwashing. Alternative fuel sources, energy efficient regulations, energy reforms.
