What is the most important issue in trying to achieve a more sustainable society?
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define sustainable....our society has been sustained for 200+ years on freedoms, enterprise and hard work.  if by sustainable you mean nature friendly that is a pipe dream created so that people will feel guilty for acheivement, be willing to modify behavior to suit the needs of a small minority that believe the world is controlable...these people need a good earth quake to make them understand that man is a very small effect on nature when she get's pissed off there is not alot we can do or have done to effect her.
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There are many issues causing poverty - there is inequality, human rights issues, lack of education, lack of access to information, unfair trade practices ... so reducing poverty in this millenium is a difficult although attainable goal.  There's also talk of the Milllenium Development Goals which multialteral development insitutions are inviting all governments and NGOs to help in achieving. I hope this will help you attend that lecture better.
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solar/wind power and electric vehicles. natural, renewable, no pollution, and noone has a monopoly on sunlight and wind.
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Helping to develop a sustainable village with a self-sufficient life-style
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Someone needs to sit down and have a serious talk with the human race. Especially the bleached ones(If you consider that our DNA came from the tribes of Africa, then the rest are all just bad mimeographs of the original results of evolution and environmental cooperation).\nThe questions to be answered start with\n--"What do you intend to contribute to the universe?"\n\nThe rest are just management questions, but nonetheless just as important in their departments.\n--"How much is it going to cost (the planet, the solar system, etc.)?"\n--"What resources are necessary to pay for it?"\n--"Can we do it at the scale/volume that we currently consume things?"\n--"If not, who is going to decide what the support level will be?"\n--"What are you doing to create a sustainable system for this goal?"\n--"Who are the stakeholders?"\n--"What is the estimated rate of return on the environment's investment(Are we going to save X number of species from extinction by asteroids?)?"\n\nSo far, all these answers are in negative connotations.\n\nTo put our species into the 'black', we need leadership like we have never seen before.\nI suspect that we won't ever see it now.
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Exactly. A far bigger emphasis should be put on environment protection than it is getting now. Everybody and every country is only looking at their own interests while the amazing rainforests are being cut and the waters full of oil.. \nI'm from east Europe, air pollution is a big problem here too, still only few people think and talk about these. I hope they won't realise the importance of this when it will be already irreversible.
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Make it a major crime to cut down trees in a forest. Insist that for every new born baby, ten trees are planted by any member of the family. This is a very minor chore and should be done with any sniffles. I would also ensure that any person who discharges waste into rivers is paraded in front of people and embarrassed to tears before being locked up in a desert stronghold for a while. He or she would be singing a different tune when released.Drivers of cars that belch smoke should have their licenses withdrawn for a while and given a lesson on pollution and it's effects on Earth. Of course human rights organization would come yelling at me but I'd promptly tell them off. I would also give awards and recognition to people who use solar energy. I would make sure that solar equipment is not taxed by the government. I am on the roll and and could go on for ever.
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a. show how underdeveloped countries have their natural  resources exploited by big companies or highly developed countries. How does this effect social, economic and political issues.\n\nb. How can your personal choices help the earth regian its natural resources?
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Issue one ....  Environmental responsibility - I want to be able to live and not just survive.\n\nIssue two ....   Bring home the troops - I don't like spending my money so that the rich can get richer.\n\nIssue three ...  Government accountability returned to the people of the U.S. and out of the multinationals (large businesses with global interests).\n\nI'll vote for anyone who can address my concerns and not just in words but in action.
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So much to do. I would first start by avoiding the waste of electricity because most of the electricity generated at home comes from gas generators that burning millions of gallons of fuel.\nthe heat generated from this generators is one of the main causes of the global waming.\nadded to that the emmissions from vehicules that is also one major problem.\ntry encouraging people and yourself :) to use vehicules that don't waste a lot of gas. take the bus when you can or ride a bicycle when you have a chance.
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Biggest challenges are mainly to do with environmental concerns politics and legislation, labour requires more money as people are becoming more and more skilled, large businesses are undercutting smaller ones by outsourcing key business processes to 3rd world countries or countries with cheaper labour costs, (indina china), in Africa its governments that are affect businesses, a change in government in africa does not gurantee current standards will remain the same african governments have been known to bury businesses that have existed for 20+years withing a single day, they create a very much volatile environment to do business in and fail to maintain policy from one government to the next one governement will have completely different ideas as to the other, businesses in africa face skilled labour shortage because of the HIV virus, and brain drain most africans migrating to first world nations. In asia Government policies is major concern , in middle east more or less terrorism creating a volatile environment for business in Europe and USA more to do with legislation volitlity of economy is understandable, a last factor is cost of fuel impacts severly on every resource.
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It's politics but it's also the incredible egotism human beings have that we are at the center of everything. Sure, we need to be concerned about pollution. We have to breathe the air and drink the water. Human beings have clearly had an adverse effect on local ecosystems, but whether we are powerful enough to warm up the whole planet is an open question. I am afraid that all the focus on global warming is taking attention away from environmental issues where there is a clearer cause and effect.
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A modern society is any society in existence today, because modern means contemporary. And an industrial society is any society that engages in large-scale industry, which is: "diligent activity directed to some purpose". A diligent activity is an activty that is "marked by persevering, painstaking effort", such as farming. There is no use of factories and machines that cause pollution or require pollution to build them, because these are mere luxuries, with which we can do without, however we can not live with out a healthy environment.\n\nEventually we will have to abandon the current technologies and machinery that require pollution on small-scale and large-scale. The alternative to the luxurious life of electricity and automobiles, is the farm life, a life in which we use nothing but simple tools and "raw human labor". The reason why we have to get rid of non-farming activities, is because they inevitably lead to pollution-causing activities and technologies.\n\nThe most important thing on Earth is food, without food, we won't be able to live, the world has a lot of war and crime due to lack of access to adequate food, which is a result of poverty. Poverty is a result of capitalism. Capitalism is a result of the pollution-causing industries that are making the world have global warming and causing health problems for many people.\n\nIf we abolish capitalism with all of its pollution and over-population centers (towns and cities), and replace it with a return to the countryside on a socialist basis with no capitalist inventions, than the world will be saved from the large-scale permanent contamination that would eventually destroy all agriculture, which is the basis for out food. This will not only put an immediate stop to further permanent polluting of the environment, but will also get rid of all the crime and war in the world by getting rid of hunger.\n\nFor more information and conversation, please contact me at S0C1AL1ST@yahoo.com or yahoo messenger ID: S0C1AL1ST
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Get rid of religion, republicans & democrates. Once all that is gone we, the people, can start dealing with the real problems on this planet & taking better care of it & us in the process.
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Focus on our own problems!\n\nInstead of make every other nation think we grow money on trees by invading other Countries, or making opinions where we were not asked, or giving away money.\n\nWe should support and submit to International Laws as the Kyoto Protocol, instead of making the impression of being too good to follow.\n\nThere are far more important issues, as:\nHEALTH care, I think the USA is the ONLY developed country that doesn't provide free health care (paid by tax payers).\nPOLLUTION, our Government just don't care, is ridiculous!\nELDERLY population, some can't even afford their medicines because their pensions are to laugh about.\n\nAlso I would start a campaign where people starts referring to our Country as UNITED STATES of AMERICA, instead of just America. Remember America is a Continent.\n\nI would make every student know more about geography, history, and math.\n\nI would raise teachers and law enforcement salaries too.\n\nI would make VOTING compulsory, that way everybody takes responsibility in the base of our Democratic principles.\n\nThanks for your VOTE.  :)
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actually..this is quite generic stuff but since im a student in the field there's some help i can giv\n\nSociety in general is a part of the natural environmnt. Hence for it to survive it neds to protect and nurture it other wise its own existence may be in nature. The international community has taken not of this already and has brought the 'KYOTO PROTOCOL' into the picture. This a decleration by concerned signatory countries to take steps neccessary to control the rapid depletion of environmental resources.\nThe main problem with the 'role of society ....' is that although society as a whole disapproves of the any harm to the environment people are not ready to come together as a body as yet. \nFor staters there MUST be a massive awareness campaign against this pheneomeneon. This can be brought about by bringing the world media into the picture. Society as a whole must adopt GUIDELINES to ensure enviromental protection.\nthis includes:\n1 Steps to be taken aginst people who abuse the environment.\n2 Steps to be taken to promote the research eco friendly alternatives to available energy resources\n3 To stop the rapid depletion of flora and fauna throughout the world.\nCurrently about 400 species of plants are wiped out every year. A few dozen animal species become extinct. And society, by representing people power can actively put a stop to this.
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The answer to studing ecology was worded the simplest by Kofi Annan. "There is little chance of protecting the environment without a greater sense of mutual responsibility." \nThe world in which is made up ofdelicate and complicated systems, which need to be understood by everyone on one level or another. While it would seem some of it to be trivial, an informed public insures a healthier planet.