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Paul University Surigao

St.Paul University System
8400 Surigao City, Philippines

Name: Sotoniel, Rogemie R. THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Cezar, Phoebe Jane D. Course/Year: BSCE-2
Manungas, Honielyn M.

MODULE 6
TOPIC 1: Sustainable Development

Introductory Multimedia:

Opening Guide Processing Questions

In a clean sheet of paper, the students will individually give their responses to the following ideas
below:

THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS – ACTIONS TOWARDS 2030

https://youtu.be/9-xdy1Jr2eg

1. What does the audio-visual material tell us?

 The audio visual material tells about the Sustainable development goals or action
towards 2030 the world’s action plan in 15 years to exterminate poverty, hunger, fighting
equality and climate change.

2. How do you define sustainability development and how do poor countries balance their
need for development with the necessity to protect the environment?
 Sustainability is characterized as progress that satisfies present needs without
endangering the capabilities of future generations and achieves a balance between
economic development, environmental protection, and social well-being. Additionally,
developing countries pursue initiatives like increasing tree planting and strictly
enforcing proper rubbish segregation in order to balance their need for economic
development with the need to protect the environment. These modest actions might have
a significant impact on our ecology.

3. What is the difference between sustainability and stability?

 The difference between sustainability and stability is that stability is the quality of
not changing or fluctuating, whereas sustainability is the capacity to create and
maintain conditions in which humans and the environment may coexist effectively to
support current and future generations.

4. What are the major environmental problems you are exposed to? Why are these
problems considered global?
 Climate change, too often ‘unprecedented’ is an inflated word that happening to our
planet today. An example of this is typhoon Odette which brought torrential rains,
violent winds, landslides, and storm surges. This rapid intensification of storms is
becoming more common due to climate change.

5. Explain the link between climate change and the global economic crisis.
 If climate change causes income disparities between and within countries. A minor
increase in the global mean would have a net negative impact on the market sector in
many developing nations and a net positive impact on the market sector in many wealthy
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countries.
6. Why is the western-centric form of globalization considered unsustainable?

 The western-centric style of globalization is regarded as unsustainable due to its

discriminatory and unequal nature. Two-thirds of humankind lives in chronic poverty,
despite rapid growth rates. There is either poverty among abundance or progress
beside poverty.

7. Why and how does the concept of degrowth negatively affect the current
globalization? Explain your answer.
 Degrowth is a state of affairs where the amount of wealth produced by the economy
remains flat or even declines. This concept differs from the recession, which is just the
detection of a negative growth rate in a productivist economic environment. Degrowth is
a process, not an actuality. It is based on the idea that the only way to ensure the survival
of humanity and the planet is to reduce global production and consumption.

8. In your own opinion, how can our country be a model of transitioning toward a green
economy?
 Because of our government's carefully implemented environmental improvement
measures and the active participation of the populace through roles and regulations,
we believe that our nation has emerged as a leading example for the transition to a
green economy.

9. How could Filipinos avoid or lessen poverty?

 Corruption is one of the causes of poverty, and we think that by getting rid of dishonest
officials, we may progressively lower the number of the poor.

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Activity 2: Crafting your own Sustainability Model

(Outcome 4: Articulate models of global sustainable development.)

Scenario: You are an advocate promoting global sustainable development program under The
International League of Environmental and Economic Stewards, a non-profit organization. As a consistent
working advocate, you are directed by the Chief Operations Officer of the Organization to create your
self-authored global sustainable development model which will be launched in Asian regions. Your
proposal model must be presented to the entire organization's Chief Executives and also the member
groups and committees for critiquing and approval.

SDG Interactions Knowledge Platforms

N N
A A
G T T G
L I I L
O O O O
B N N B
Systematic collation of cases Searchable database of case
A A fragmented by Develop and collate regional A A
L L
of interaction and coded sector, studies and
experience of
and global syntheses L
appraisal managing interactions L
S
C S S P
I C U O
E I B L
N E Emerging community of I
C N Science-policy-society practice N C
E C dialogue and learning co-design A Y
S E development. T
P I S
H S O P
E P N H
R H  New research questions
A E
E E and priorities R
L
R  Key variable for policy, E
E planning, and monitoring
P
S  Evidence for SDG
Implementation strategies
O
 Global priorities on
L
opportunities or negotiation I
needs (HLPF) C
 National Knowledge needs Y
and policy questions on SDG
interactions S
 Research products P
technology & processes, H
meta-analyses, etc. E
 Priorities for research R
funding and global E
syntheses S
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REFLECTION:
What I have LEARNED this week that has helped me do all aspects of this better?
This topic showed us the importance of sustainable growth for both the preservation and
continuation of humanity. The "sustainable revolution" will need to occur rapidly, deliberately, and on
numerous levels and domains at once, in contrast to the two previous significant revolutions in human
history, the Green Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. We learnt about the importance of the 2030
Sustainable Development Goals and Plans in this topic, as well as how they might soon contribute to
positive changes in the globe.

What I have DONE this week that has made me better at doing all aspects of this?

Within this week, I’ve done various activities like creating charts, doing comprehensive activities
and reading materials about sustainability. Thus, all of those activities has made me better at accomplishing
the objectives of the module.

How can I IMPROVE at doing all aspects of this is:

Study hard and read multiple readings about sustainable development, because these are
important topic that must be ponder.

ASSESSMENTS
(I) All competencies/outcomes-based teaching-learning activities serve as the major assessments.
(II) QUIZ TIME

1. The following are part of the Egg of Sustainability except::

a. Human well-being
b. Ecosystem well-being
c. Social well-being

2. Sustainable development does not imply the affirmation of a neo-liberal economic model; rather, it
proposes:
a. A world of solidarity that would accompany profound changes in existing economic arrangements.
b. A reassurance of democratic procedures.
c. Both a and b

3. Sustainable development is not a new method of analysis. Choose what requires the people to reject
four intolerable and commonplace features of contemporary life that put the future of the world in
jeopardy:
a. inequality, caused by excessive confidence in the distribution of savings revenue in times of crisis
b. instability, brought about by an excess of State intervention, lax monetary policies, and inflationary
processes
c. inefficiency, caused by countries turning in on themselves, accompanied by market shifts that seriously
affect the rural areas
d. exclusion and inequality which are still very much in evidence and wrongly accepted as inevitable.
e. All of the above

4. Sustainable development is not an end in itself but a way of managing possible feasible scenarios for
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the future and fostering new approaches to social dialogue.

a. True
b. False

5. Sustainable development involves the natural sciences and economics, but it is primarily a matter of
culture. It is connected with values people cherish and with the ways in which they perceive their
relationship with others.
a. True
b. False

SYNTHESIS:

1. How do poor countries balance their need for development with the necessity to protect the
environment?
 A nation's needs must be balanced. Find out what amount of environmental protection is
necessary and how to implement it. As you decide what needs to be developed, be sure to
thoroughly assess any potential environmental hazards or implications. Find strategies that
will advance development while still preserving the environment.

2. How do you define sustainable development?

 Sustainability is growth that meets existing requirements while preserving capacity for future
generations and ensuring a balance between economic development, environmental
protection, and social well-being.

3. What are the major environmental problems you are exposed to? How are these problems
addressed in achieving sustainable development?
 Climate change, in order to combat climate change, which is a problem that affects all nations
equally, it is necessary to develop technologies that reduce air pollution, invest more in
renewable energy and energy efficiency, expand public transportation in cities, enhance waste
and water management, and improve disaster preparedness.

4. Differentiate stability from sustainability.

 Stability is the process of creating a civilization that works with the environment's short-term
stability. While sustainability refers to the design of a society that modifies the planet's erotic
environment in order to maintain progress and advancement.

ASSIGNMENT:
Learning Activity: Finding Everyday Pollution. The students will do the activity following the
instructions:

Instructions: Go around your neighborhood and list the different kinds of pollutants that you see. Widen
your observation by looking at the areas surrounding your neighborhood. Make a list of these pollutants
and check which ones can be recycled and which ones need to be put together for the garbage men to
collect. With the recycled ones, list the possible things that you can do to make them usable and explain
this in a report. Do not simply limit yourself to what you can do with the recyclables. Your report must
include suggestions to the neighborhood, the barangay, and the city district.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF POLLUTION:

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 Water Pollution
 Air Pollution
 Plastic Pollution

Things that can be recycled:

 Plastic bottle: can be used to create plastic flower pots, flower base, for
bricks making,
 Plastic Wrappers and cellophanes: can be used for decoration and
bricks making
 Rubber tires: used as flower pots
 Batteries:
 Plastic Bags: can be used as extra padding when mailing packages
 Newspapers: can be used to create new newsprints
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