How should our governments respond to economic and political issues?
Chapter 9 Key Concepts:
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- GDP per Capita
- Kyoto Protocol
Study Questions
- What’s an environmental issue?
- Describe the 6 different views that exist on environmental issues
- How do environmental issues connect to quality of life?
- How are governance, economics and environmental issues connected?
- What’s climate change?
- What’s a greenhouse gas (GHG)?
- How do decisions about GHG emissions connect to quality of life? Explain the link between GHG emissions, industry and jobs.
- How would reducing GHG emissions involve political and economic decision making?
- Based on what you know about supply and demand, how might the decisions of individual consumers and producers push GHG emissions up or down?
- What values do you think should shape economic decisions connected to climate change?
- What’s the Kyoto protocol?
- Why might the positions of Canada and the U.S. on the Kyoto Protocol concern environmental organizations?
- Examine the case study on pages 323 to 325 in your textbook and discuss what impacts economic and political decisions about the oil sands have on climate change and quality of life?
- What is biodiversity?