Day 35: Environmental issues

Click to watch a clip about Malala Yousefzai

Review of Chapter 12 - poverty.  HIPC.  World bank/IMF.  Bilateral aid.  Tied aid.

Environmental issues

Click to watch the CNN trailer to Planet in Peril

Click to watch Planet in Peril: shark finning

• supply and demand as population grows
• affecting one part of the ecosystem will have an effect on a different part of the ecosystem (ex. cutting down trees - global warming.  Killing sharks - affecting the numbers of other species)
• Government regulation regulation/deregulation.  (ex. setting standards of factory pollution into the air or water - if no regulations then what are the affects on the surrounding environment/wildlife/plant species/people/etc)

Handout: on Chapter 13 environment (What is global warming.  What governments can do around the world to decrease global warming.  Kyoto protocol)

Read page 418/419 - Do you think that Canadians should link foreign aid to human rights?

Do questions on page 420/421.  #5,7.9.10