To show that measuring overall sustainability and enjoyment of life is more important in order to progress as a species than measuring just profit or just production. Rank the countries of the world using criteria that accounts for life expectancy, economic footprint, and experienced well being Showing that the path towards a happy planet, and in turn happy humans, is all about balance between man, nature, and technology. 1. It quickly become apparent that most nations who are at the top of the list in one category often are at the bottom of the list in other categories 2.
Countries in the process of modernization cannot follow the same path as those who did in the 1800's and 1900's 3. Everyone needs to reduce their carbon footprint One reason we do not live on a happy planet is because of the way energy is distributed. In order to make this better we need to make trade more fair, goods more accessible, and energy cheaper and more renewable. We need to switch to renewable sources of energy because it will both be cheaper for the consumer and less harsh on the environment. This report emphasizes that the model being exported from early developers to those that are developing now is not economic or sustainable.
These new developers need a new method and different goals than those that came before. These nations not only have to rethink their economies but their cultures as well. The psyche of the American consumerism model must be left behind for one that celebrates helping fellow humans and balance with nature . The economic system running the world right now takes into account only profits. This commoditizing of all the planets resources in a pure capitalistic system would cause the world to use all of its resources in a finite amount of time.If everyone lived as Americans did in 2008 we would need 4 planets to sustain such consumption.
Humans need to take conservation of wild lands and resources into account when making plans for the future. Capitalism may be the best way to organize society, but there must be some exceptions put in place in order to improve the quality of life for all people and out planet. Some things should not be for profit. It seems that countries with the highest life expectancy and experienced wellbeing tend to have the worst scores on ecological footprint. These irst world nations have the highest quality of life in most regards, but it is at the expense of the poorer nations’ peoples and lands. Those with low experienced well-being and life expectancy have the smallest ecological footprint.
These poorer nations are having all of their resources, and therefore their profits, flooding up to a select few super economies like China’s, the USA’s and those in Europe. In our current system no country is fully self-sufficient so it is very important that all nations progress together. Nations cannot improve without their vital partners doing the same.Part II HPI For the HPI trade is a key factor that has to change in order to improve the overall quality of life for all and the HPI score of a nation. Development of more trade and a growing world economy is encouraged in this model. It refers to the fact that one of the many things holding currently developing nations back is the modern model of pure capitalism, mineral exploitation, and job exporting.
The modern model requires takers and victims. Their new way is through trade that is still mostly free, but has some important fair trade qualities.Not only would every nation have to be accountable for their own production and consumption, but they would also have to help their trade partners too in order to improve themselves; because all nations are so intertwined that it is impossible to rise a great amount without helping others. In reality when a primary nation is helping a second nation, the primary nation is in turn helping themselves in the long run. Likely on ground effects for people: Locally: Residents of the USA would probably still enjoy a steadily climbing experience of wellbeing but now not at the expense of the rest of the planet like we do now.Many new technologies would spring up to replace the wasteful designs of today.
Instead of finding ways to squeeze out profits from nothing, business in this new world will find and sell new modes of energy and ways to consume them. Elsewhere: Lives in most nations would improve, and those already with the highest standard of living would start to do so without wasting so much energy, time, and other people’s lives Likely on the ground effects for environments: Locally and elsewhere: A switch to using the HPI as an indicator for a nation’s success would improve the environment all around the world.Our greenhouse gas emissions would decline and we would stop wasting so much time and energy mining, drilling, and transporting fossil fuels Part I Gender and equality World Bank: Gender Equality and Development To improve the quality of life for everyone in the world and grow the world economy by giving 51% of the population (women) the same rights and opportunities as the other 49% (men) Bringing women up to the same level as men in regards to wages, representation in government, human rights, education, and overall quality of life To break the cycle that has kept women oppressed around the world for most recent history. . Investing in rural women, especially in regards to agriculture 2. To change laws and cultural restraints placed on women 3.
Through changing existing traditions and the role of both women and men in the home, we will create better home lives for the children of tomorrow Through improving the economic lives of women we will be improving the lives of everyone. When women can bring more income into the home they help their families eat better and allow more children to go to better schools, which in turn helps get more women be educated.Right now families send their sons to school first if they cannot afford to send all of their children. Leading by example free, working mothers could both inspire future generations to do the same and be able to support them financially.
By investing in the economy first, social and environmental issues will solve themselves. Once women have the same job opportunities and receive equal wages as men, all the other problems regarding environmental issues and cultural inequality will solve themselves.Women account for 51% of the world’s population; bringing over half of the world up to the same level as men will grow the world’s economy dramatically. This rise will also allow women to be better represented and present in government, therefore rendering elected officials more representative of their constituents. Healthcare is central to the debate about women’s rights. For when we speak of women’s health we are actually speaking about the wellbeing of everyone and therefore society as a whole.
First off, healthier women bring healthier babies into safer and healthier homes. This makes for stronger and smarter children who grow into brighter, stronger, more responsible adults. Mortality rates drop as the average education of a nation improves. Also, the more educated a woman is the fewer children she is likely to have. This allows for more time and money to be invested into each child’s life, therefore improving the quality life and education of everyone. Part II Gender and Equality The goal of gender equality brings with it improved trade throughout the world.
With more people having disposable incomes and having the ability to participate in the economy, all trade will grow. Countries will become wealthier and goods will be in higher demand. Also emerging technology, information, and communication jobs are opening huge fields for women who are entering an array of new job markets. Thanks to new technologies many can even start working from home and then transition into the workplace. The more women are empowered the faster we globalize and increase trade internationally.
Likely on the ground effects for people: Locally: As the United States’ gender gap in wages closes women will wield more power and own more capital. This will all lead to a dramatic increase in the number of women in representative positions in government, perhaps even president. This achievement would give women the tools to change long held traditions and laws and hasten even more the closing of the gender gap. Elsewhere: The world will benefit greatly from having more women in the workplace and communicating globally.
Being able to know how everyone else lives in the world creates a good perspective when addressing one’s own civil and criminal rights, which will accelerate the liberating of oppressed women of the world who are about to gain access to these new tools of technologies. Likely on the ground effects for environment: Locally: The United States is low in the ranks when it comes to environmental policy and the use of renewable energy. Many jobs in the near future will be based in new energy sources and the conversion of a fossil fueled nations into a sustainable minimally wastefully global economy.Elsewhere: The environment will benefit greatly from a more balanced and conscious human race lead by a demographically accurate global coalition.
From a global scale it will be easier for mankind to recognize and address quickly problems concerning the environment. 1 ----What are the different reports’ different goals? 4 pages single spaced ?? Identify and explain how each report draws on or echoes two or more theories or intellectual perspectives on development (name them, using terms and understandings from Sheppard et provide examples:Keynesian, more jobs, Rastow modernization, wants markets and globalization but with possibly a lot of regulation, pushing for markets and jobs, modified neoliberalism, ??? What role does trade play in development in this report: How does it advance or deter development? Free trade or fair trade? Calls for more free trade, but with free trade still intact. modernization theory exposure to other’s ideas, Post-colonial feminist: exponential upward spiral ???What are the likely on-the-ground effects on people and the environment of these plans, both positive and negative, and both in the site of the project and elsewhere in the world? Use not only the information in the report; draw also on Sheppard et al’s analyses of how development projects have tended to work or the critiques of how they have tended to work. ?? Which theoretical perspectives would seem to you to offer the best guide to how to achieve the reports’ different goals? Are the theories they seem to incorporate or echo helpful or harmful for achieving those goals?
