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Animal Rights
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How can protecting animals also help people?
Livelihoods: About 1 billion of the world’s poorest people rely on animals for
their income. The welfare of these animals is essential to supporting human
livelihoods – animal health improves productivity and creates stability,
leading to sustainable development and protecting livelihoods.
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Environmental protection: Responsible animal management has positive
impacts on land use, climate change, pollution, water supplies, habitat
conservation and biodiversity.
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Health: Good animal care reduces the risk of food poisoning and of
diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. Healthy animals
also secure food supplies, helping protect people from malnutrition and
hunger.
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Companionship: All around the world, millions of people look to animals for
companionship; the human-animal bond has proven therapeutic benefits.
Deforestation
• Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive
scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the
land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s
land area, but the world’s rain forests could completely
vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of
deforestation.
• Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of
them are related to money or to people’s need to provide
for their families. The biggest driver of deforestation is
agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for
planting crops or grazing livestock.
Education
• Over 2 billion people are living in absolute
poverty in the world and have little or no
access to education.
• Over 125 million children do not have any
access to schooling and of this, 70% are
girls. Additionally, 2/3rds of the world’s
countries have no equality between boys
and girls in terms of primary and
secondary education.
Global Hunger
• More than one billion people — one sixth of the
world's population — suffer from chronic hunger.
Without enough food, adults struggle to work
and children struggle to learn. Global food
supplies must increase by an estimated 50
percent to meet expected demand in the next 20
years.
• Advancing sustainable agricultural-led growth
increases the availability of food, keeps food
affordable, and raises the incomes of the poor.
Global Pollution
• Pollution is the addition of any substance (solid,
liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as
heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment
at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted,
decomposed, recycled, or stored in some
harmless form.
• The major kinds of pollution are air pollution,
water pollution, and land pollution. Modern
society is also concerned about specific types of
pollutants, such as noise pollution, light
pollution, and even plastic pollution.
Global Water Rights
• Today’s water crisis is not an issue of
scarcity, but of access. More people in the
world own cell phones than have access
to a toilet. And as cities and slums grow at
increasing rates, the situation worsens.
Every day, lack of access to clean water
and sanitation kills thousands, leaving
others with reduced quality of life.
Health and Disease
• What are some of the worst diseases out there and how should
we handle them?
• If a disease is localized to a certain region, should other
countries intervene?
• In the 21st century, health is a shared responsibility, involving
equitable access to essential care and collective defense
against transnational threats.
• The World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating
authority for health within the United Nations system. It is
responsible for providing leadership on global health matters,
shaping the health research agenda, setting standards, finding
evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to
countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
Leadership
• What makes a successful/unsuccessful leader?
• Why is it that some countries have constantly successful
leaders while others do not?
• How does this impact the people?
• Are some countries/continents prone to corrupt leaders than
others?
• With this topic, the student should compare & contrast two
different leaders and present why one was successful and the
other was not. The student should provide an overview of their
characters life/background while also providing evidence to
justify their point of a good or bad leader. Be prepared to
convince/defend your argument to your classmates.
Population Displacement
• The displacement of people refers to the forced
movement of people from their locality or environment
and occupational activities.
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It is a form of social change caused by a number of
factors, the most common being armed conflict. Natural
disasters, famine, development and economic changes
may also be a cause of displacement.
• The term refugee refers to any person forced to move
outside of an international border.
Sweat Shoppes
• A sweatshop is characterized by the systematic violation of one or
more fundamental workers' rights that have been codified in
international and U.S. law.
• These rights include the prohibition of child labor, forced
or compulsory labor and discrimination in employment based on any
personal characteristic other than the ability to do the job; the right to
a safe and healthy work environment that does not expose workers to
degrading or dangerous working conditions: freedom of association
and the right to organize and bargain collectively.
• A sweatshop is also characterized by wages that do not permit
workers to feed, clothe and shelter themselves and their families, and
hours of work so long that education and a decent family life are out of
reach.
Topics in Review
Choose your top five
1. Animal Rights
2. Sweat Shops
3. Population
Displacement
4. Leadership
5. Health & Disease
6. Education
7. Deforestation
8. Global Hunger
9. Water Rights
10.Global Pollution