For the Planet and Its People
(a) Suggest how the three scenarios for 2015 might have very different consequences for the planet and its people. (10)
As seen from the three possible, predictions, the various outlooks for 2025 convey the different consequences or the planet and its people. As seen through the globalised prediction it states how it won’t vary much from what is today, however this is dependent on whether the USA will remain the dominant superpower. With India being an emerging superpower despite its wealth and poverty differences it is known to become a rising superpower. However, with a low GNI per capita, a high population growth and high unemployment displays weakness as opposed to the USA who, still as a dominant superpower has economic influence and the rise of international finance as opposed to manufacturing of goods and the extraction of raw materials. In addition to this, as superpowers can constantly change it is interesting how the USA has remained dominant. Such as by being a culture of consumerism it has allowed them to expand into the consumer market where an opportunity for buying and selling has become available. Furthermore, through maintaining a culture of capitalism, the importance for attaining and retaining wealth has remained in tact and the globalisation of TNC’s such as McDonalds has enabled them to spread their wings and American cultural influence.
However, with continued global warming, environmental problems will occur as due to excessive resource use such as with the USA consuming around 25% of global resources. As global governance suggested, it wishes to reduce greenhouse gases and resource consumption, which in this day and age may be hard to do as due to our technological boom. It is interesting how the US committed to the Copenhagen Change Summit in order to reduce carbon dioxide from coal-based power generation to solar and natural gas production. Through these drastic changes it suggests a better world is to come in the near future, as with
As seen from the three possible, predictions, the various outlooks for 2025 convey the different consequences or the planet and its people. As seen through the globalised prediction it states how it won’t vary much from what is today, however this is dependent on whether the USA will remain the dominant superpower. With India being an emerging superpower despite its wealth and poverty differences it is known to become a rising superpower. However, with a low GNI per capita, a high population growth and high unemployment displays weakness as opposed to the USA who, still as a dominant superpower has economic influence and the rise of international finance as opposed to manufacturing of goods and the extraction of raw materials. In addition to this, as superpowers can constantly change it is interesting how the USA has remained dominant. Such as by being a culture of consumerism it has allowed them to expand into the consumer market where an opportunity for buying and selling has become available. Furthermore, through maintaining a culture of capitalism, the importance for attaining and retaining wealth has remained in tact and the globalisation of TNC’s such as McDonalds has enabled them to spread their wings and American cultural influence.
However, with continued global warming, environmental problems will occur as due to excessive resource use such as with the USA consuming around 25% of global resources. As global governance suggested, it wishes to reduce greenhouse gases and resource consumption, which in this day and age may be hard to do as due to our technological boom. It is interesting how the US committed to the Copenhagen Change Summit in order to reduce carbon dioxide from coal-based power generation to solar and natural gas production. Through these drastic changes it suggests a better world is to come in the near future, as with