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Environmental Issues
To what extent should the government and Canadians become involved
in protecting the environment?
Chapter task: you will answer the above question through your work on the ACE Project.
But first…. a little background info! Using your textbook, answer the following questions:
1. What’s an environmental issue? Give an example.
2. What is a political decision?
3. What is an economic decision?
4. In what way is the law about light bulbs a political decision, involving governance in
Canada? (pg. 302)
5. In what way is the law about light bulbs an economic decision, involving producers and
consumers?
6. What is climate change?
** Thematic Map task
7. How do political and economic decisions connected to climate change affect quality of
life for the Inuit?
8. What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita?
9. Based on what you know about supply and demand, how might the decisions of individual
consumers and producers push GHG emissions up or down? Describe an example.
10. What was the “Kyoto Protocol”?
11. What are GHGs?
12. Did the U.S. and Canada both agree to the Kyoto Protocol? Briefly explain your answer.
13. Name three ways the government attempted to reduce GHG emissions in 2007.
14. What did Rob Grant’s school do?
15. What is bitumen?
16. What it the problem with bitumen?
17. What is biodiversity?
How does consumerism affect the environment?
Watch the video to be able to answer the following questions:
1. How can you demonstrate to others your opinions on how to balance the environment
and the economy?
2. Summarize the Kyoto Protocol – why do some people support it and why are others
opposed to it?
3. What does it mean to live in a disposable society?
4. How do planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence relate to our disposable
society?
5. How does out consumption of good impact Aboriginal groups?
6. How does your opinion regarding the balance of the environment and the economy
demonstrate your ideology?
7. Define the following terms – biodiversity, ecosystem, land use, sustainable development.