Social Science – Sociology Week 10 Assignment – Critical Threats to the Global Environment

 Overview

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

1. The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.
2. Globalization.
3. Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.
4. A lack of access to technology.
5. Civil war (NOT the U.S. Civil War).
6. The rise in oceans’ levels.
7. Covid-19 and the global pandemic.
8. The dangers of poor countries remaining poor.