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Is Over-population the Problem The impact (I) of resource use in the world is a result of the relationship between: Consumption levels per person (C); The technology used to produce the goods and services consumed (T); and Population numbers (P). This complex relationship is often shown by the formula: I = C x T x P Source: Adapted from United Nations Development Programme, Press Release, New York, 12 July 1999.
Globalisation Globalisation is more than the flow of money and commodities around the world. It also involves the growing interdependence of the world's people through 'shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearing borders'. This offers great opportunities for enriching people's lives and creating a global community based on shared values. However, when markets are allowed to dominate the process, the benefits and opportunities may not be shared equitably. As a result globalisation has led to a polarisation between the people and countries who benefit from the system and those that are merely passive recipients of its effects. The fifth of the world's people living in the highest income countries has 86% of world Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 82% of world export markets, 68% of foreign direct investment, and 74% of telephone lines. The bottom fifth, in the poorest countries, has about 1% of each category. Of the foreign direct investment in developing countries and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, more than 80% went to just 20 countries, mainly to China. Such disparities are glaring enough. However, the inequitable effects of globalisation driven by markets and profit are far wider and deeper, touching on many aspects of human life, including: Caring for each other, 'the invisible heart of human development', is threatened because today's competitive global market is putting pressures on the time, resources and incentives for caring labour, without which, individuals do not flourish and social cohesion can break down. Breakthroughs in technology, such as the Internet, can open a fast track to knowledge-based growth in rich and poor countries alike, but at present benefit the relatively well-off and educated: 88% of users live in industrialised countries, which collectively represent just 17% of the world's population. The literally well connected have an overpowering advantage over the unconnected poor, whose voices and concerns are being left out of the global conversation. Money also talks louder than need in defining the biotechnology research agenda - cosmetic drugs and slow-ripening tomatoes seem to come higher on the list than a vaccine against malaria or drought-resistant crops for marginal land. The 'breakneck' speed of globalisation is also making people's lives less secure, as the spread of global threats to well-being outpaces action to tackle them.
Page 1 and 2: Introduction As with issues of citi
Page 3 and 4: OECD (1997) Sustainable Consumption
Page 5 and 6: Begin by opening your learning jour
Page 7 and 8: Population - Whose Problem Source:
Page 11 and 12: World Bank economist, Herman Daly,
Page 14 and 15: Consumption Does Not Guarantee Happ
Page 17 and 18: Many Poor People Live in the Most A
Page 19 and 20: A Story About Economic Growth and t
Page 21 and 22: Many Polluting Industries are Movin
Page 23 and 24: Environmental Costs The producton o
Page 27 and 28: Why are the Resources Impacts of No
Page 29 and 30: Thus, while consumption may be a ca
Page 31: Wants Wants are the goods and servi
Page 35 and 36: Changing and Improving Products and
Page 37 and 38: Changing Patterns of Household, Gov
Page 41 and 42: Many countries greatly exceed the f
Page 43 and 44: Q15: What is the size of your Ecolo
Page 45 and 46: The American Footprint ... Estimate
Page 47 and 48: Compound Footprinting The most robu
Page 49 and 50: Consume less by consuming less per
Page 51 and 52: Country Population (1995) The Ecolo
Page 53 and 54: How and why to teach with the Ecolo
Page 55 and 56: How did you score Check your total
Page 57 and 58: Towards a Definition There are many
Page 59 and 60: Taking such principles into account
Page 61 and 62: Use If the product goes into the dr
Page 63 and 64: Sustainable consumption requires ev
Page 65 and 66: Defining Sustainable Consumption -
Page 67 and 68: Q23: Explain how you could adapt th
Page 69 and 70: Consumption does not guarantee happ
Page 71 and 72: The work-and-spend cycle Alienation
Page 73 and 74: Activity 7 - Reflection Q22: Answer

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