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CHAPTER 9 – HOW SHOULD GOVERNMENTS IN CANADA RESPOND TO POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES? How do environmental issues affect your quality of life? Do these issues require government regulation and monitoring? Terms you need to know: Biodiversity_________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Climate change:______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What issues are communicated on page 299? 1.___________________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________________________________________ Page 303 – What’s an environmental issue? Why do environmental issues arise?_______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What are some activities we do that affect the environment? ____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Like all issues, environmental issues involve different views and perspectives. Citizenship and environmental issues are connected and they connect to quality of life. View the groups on the mind map and give examples and explanations of how environmental issues may impact three of these groups. 1.___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Page 304 – How are governance, economics and environmental issues connected? Using the web below, give examples of how these three aspects are related. Page 305 and 306 – Three students’ perspectives on environmental issues What issues about quality of life are raised in the perspectives? 1.___________________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________________________________________ 4.___________________________________________________________________________ 5.___________________________________________________________________________ To what extent do these students think the government should be involved in helping solve these problems?_______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Choose one perspective and identify and explain how it relates to the mind map on page 304. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Page 308 What is climate change?________________________________________________________ What are greenhouse gases (GHGs?______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What are the predicted effects of climate change? 1.__________________________________________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________________________________________ 4.___________________________________________________________________________ Where do GHGs come from?_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What role do GHGs play in the ecomony?___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How do individuals use fossil fuels?________________________________________________ Greenhouse gases affect the whole world. Different regions will experience different impacts. People who live in low-lying land regions may experience severe impacts from rising sea levels. What impact has climate change already had on some regions in North America?___________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Examine and discuss the maps on page 310 and 311. Why might the Inuit seek a strong voice in political and economic decision making connected to climate change?_______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for North America predicts impacts for North America from warmer temperatures. Read these predictions on page 310. How might these impacts affect our quality of life? Our economic future? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Pages 312 and 313 Which provinces have the highest emissions of CO2? What is the reason for this? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How do political and economic decision making help shape the industries and plants that Alberta and Ontario have? 1.__________________________________________________________________________ 2.__________________________________________________________________________ How might decisions about GHG emissions connect to quality of life? GHG emissions industry jobs ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Pages 316 and 317 Climate change involves the whole world. Canada and the U.S. are part of negotiations in how to take action. The Kyoto Protocol was the first climate-change plan the countries of the world negotiated. The U.S. did not agree to the plan. Canada agreed at first, but its position has changed because of the political party in power. ---2002 – the Liberal gov’t endorsed the Kyoto Protocol but did not make decisions to reduce GHG emissions. ---2006 – the Conservative party was elected. It said Canada would not meet the targets of the ---Protocol and that the targets would damage the economy. Said GHGs were rising 2007 – Canada and U.S. agreed to take part in negotiations in 2012 after Kyoto expires