Module 9 Consumer education - APCEIU

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Currently some trends appear positive: the growth in world population is slowing, food production is still rising, the majority of people are living longer and healthier lives, environmental quality in some regions is improving. But it is impossible to ignore other trends which have the potential to undermine these gains or even bring about catastrophic collapse of local economies. They include the growing scarcity of fresh water, loss of productive agricultural land and the downward spiral of impoverishment affecting a significant minority of the world's population. These threats are real and near-term; they already affect millions of people. Source: United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (1997) Global Change and Sustainable Development: Critical Trends, paragraph 14. Listen as David Suzuki explains the human dependence on the resources provided by nature and the problems being caused by the high rates of resource consumption in the world. These ideas were introduced in <strong>Module</strong> 1 through three exercises. This module builds on the concepts developed in these exercises. Before moving on to the new activities , you might wish to review the key ideas developed in these exercises: The analysis of a graph of world consumption patterns A True-False quiz on global consumption patterns An investigation of the 1998 Human Development Report on Sustainable Consumption. Q1: Identify the key ideas you learnt in the three exercises in the case study of consumption in <strong>Module</strong> 1. Q2: These ideas are introductory and, no doubt, give rise to a number of questions. Brainstorm a list of the questions you would like to see answered in this module. Compare your questions with the list of questions that guided the planning of this module. We return to these questions in the reflection activity at the end of this module.
Population - Whose Problem Source: New Internationalist, 79, September, 1979.
Page 1 and 2: Introduction As with issues of citi
Page 3 and 4: OECD (1997) Sustainable Consumption
Page 5: Begin by opening your learning jour
Page 9 and 10: Begin by opening your learning jour
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 and 32: Wants Wants are the goods and servi
Page 33 and 34: Globalisation Globalisation is more
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
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Towards a Definition There are many
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Taking such principles into account
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Use If the product goes into the dr
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Sustainable consumption requires ev
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Defining Sustainable Consumption -
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Q23: Explain how you could adapt th
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Consumption does not guarantee happ
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The work-and-spend cycle Alienation
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Activity 7 - Reflection Q22: Answer
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