Brannon A.Eludo.

12/5/20
BSEM-201 Contemporary World

Module 6 Topic 1
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Introductory Multimedia:

(Outcome 1-3: explain the origins and manifestations of environmental crises; differentiate
stability and sustainability; and examine and exhibit understanding on the global sustainability
development goals

Opening Guide Processing Questions

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

Answer: The audio-visual explain about Sustainability Development and how the leaders tackle
development issues and how they recognized new challenges which needs human prosperity
must go hand in hand with protecting the planet.

2. How do you define sustainability development and how do poor countries balance
their need for development with the necessity to protect the environment?

Answer: Sustainable development is defined as the concept of needs goes beyond simply
material needs and includes values, relationships, freedom to think, act, and participate, all
amounting to sustainable living, morally, and spiritually. Poor countries don’t really balance
their need for development with the necessity to protect the environment.
3. What is the difference between sustainability and stability?

Answer: Sustainability is designing a civilization that alters the ergodic nature of the planet's
environment to sustain development and advancement. Stability is designing a civilization that
interacts with the stable short term temporal nature of the environment.

4. What are the major environmental problems you are exposed to? Why are these
problems considered as global?

Answer: Our Mother Earth is currently facing a lot of environmental concerns.

The environmental problems like global warming, acid rain, air pollution, urban sprawl, waste
disposal, ozone layer depletion, water pollution, climate change and many more affect every
human, animal, and nation on this planet. Over the last few decades, the exploitation of our
planet and the degradation of our environment has gone up at an alarming rate. As our actions
have been not in favor of protecting this planet, we have seen natural disasters striking us more
often in the form of flash floods, earthquakes, blizzards, tsunamis, and cyclones.
 5. Explain the link between climate change and global economic crisis.

Answer: Global economic crisis affects climate change negatively by promoting global
production and international trade. A predominant factor in the emission of GHGs is its direct
relation to world gross domestic product, not only in manufacturing but also industrial
agriculture and transportation. Not only is it a serious threat to the planet and to people, climate
change is also threatening the global economy. This problem needs public-private sector
collaboration to change the way we produce goods to other methods that guarantee and drive the
development of sustainable economic growth. As well as its serious impact on the environment
and people, climate change is one of the biggest threats to economic stability.

6. Why is the western-centric form of globalization considered unsustainable?

Answer: The result is a much more inclusive interpretation of globalization. Second, a historical
interpretation enables us to treat globalization as a process facilitating the most radical
transformation of societies that humans have ever experienced: a transformation called
democratization. Globalization, then, is not about rampant capitalism, technology or
homogenization. It is about the changed environments people create and manipulate as their
societies globally interconnect, environments that have become increasingly commercialized,
urbanized, and democratized.

7. Why and how does the concept of degrowth negatively affect the current
globalization?

Answer: The term degrowth refers to an economic situation during which the economic wealth
produced does not increase or even decrease. This concept is to be distinguished from the
recession, a simple observation of a negative growth rate in the context of a productivist
economy. The concept of degrowth is a voluntary process and not a reality. It is based on the
principle of awareness of a finite world, with limited resources, and on the idea that only a
reduction in global production and consumption can ensure the future of humanity and the
preservation of the planet.

8. In your own opinion, how can our country be a model of transitioning toward a
green economy?

Answer: Two key instruments for advancing the transition towards an Inclusive Green Economy,
while delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals, are modelling tools and reliable metrics
and measurements. The development of these can enable countries to measure their progress
against national and international development targets, to anticipate the future impacts of policies
and, thereafter, to guide and inform Green Economy policymaking.

9. How could Filipinos avoid or lessen poverty?

Answer: To lessen poverty in the Philippines, first is to create job, raisethe minimum wages,
support pay equity, provide paid leave and paid sick days, establish work schedules that work,
invest in affordable, high-quality child care and early education, expand medicaid, reform the
criminal justice system and enact policies that support successful re-entry, and lastly do no harm.
There is nothing inevitable about poverty. We just need to build the political will to enact the
policies that will increase economic security, expand opportunities, and grow the middle class.

Activity 2: Crafting your own Sustainability Model

(60 minutes)

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

Scenario: You and two other colleagues compose an advocate team promoting global
sustainable development program under The International League of Environmental and
Economic Stewards, a non-profit organization.

As a consistent working advocate team, 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.
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM
(Under the International League of Environmental and Economic Steward, a
Non-profit Organization)

Goals:
-Eradicate poverty and hunger, guaranteeing a healthy life.
-Universalize access to basic services such as water, sanitation andsustainable
energy.
-Support the generation of development opportunities through inclusive
education and decent work.

This Sustainable Development cover different apects of social development,

environmental protection and economic growth, and these are the main ones: -
The eradication of poverty and hunger so as to ensure a healthy life.