Week 10 Assignment – Critical Threats to the Global Environment Week 10 Assignm

Week 10 Assignment – Critical Threats to the Global Environment
Week 10 Assignment – Critical Threats to the Global Environment
Overview The United Nations has continued to
retain you as a consultant for a project that deals with climate and the
environment. Most developed countries see the dangers of releasing too
much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and are committed to climate
policies that attain a carbon-free future in the next 30 years. They
already see the damaging effects that this gas alone is having on the
living conditions of crops, wildlife, and humans. As a result, many
member states are dissatisfied with the progress of the eight Millennium
Development Goals for international development that they established
in 2000. The member states see a substantial disconnect between several
issues that developed and developing countries believe are priorities.
For example, Burundi wants one of the goals to focus on food security,
while Austria is adamant that a major global issue should be the
negotiation of ceasefires in countries in the midst of civil wars. The
UN wants you to work from the list below and prioritize two of the
global community’s threats that it deems the most serious to
environmental stability.
Instructions Step 1 Select two threats. Listed below are
eight issues that the UN feels pose the most significant threats to
global security. Some of these apply to the Earth’s 7.7 billion people,
while others are limited primarily to developing countries. Regardless
of where these threats are concentrated, your job as a consultant is to
identify two of them that you consider the most critical to the globe’s population.
Issue Options The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.
Globalization.
Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.
A lack of access to technology.
Civil war (NOT the U.S. Civil War).
The rise in oceans’ levels.
Covid-19 and the global pandemic.
The dangers of poor countries remaining poor.
Step 2 Write a minimum of an 8 page persuasive paper about your two threats.
Write an introduction paragraph of at
least one-half page in length identifying the two threats you have
selected and the purpose of the paper. Then, for the two threats you
chose:
Identify the factors that make it such a serious risk to the global environment that you would choose to present it to the UN.
Analyze the role that humans have played in aggravating this threat to the Earth’s environment.
Suggest initiatives that the global community can take to mitigate the worst effects of this environmental threat.
Write a conclusion paragraph of at least
one-half page in length that summarizes your impressions of these risks
for global stability.
Guidelines This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).
For assistance and information, please refer to the SWS link in the
left-hand menu of your course and check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
In order to earn full credit, the answers to each of the three questions must be at least two full pages long, making six
pages. You must also include the one-half page introduction and
one-half page conclusion at the beginning and end of the paper, adding
up to one page of content. Finally, you must include a graph or table (see 5, below) that will be at least one page in length. The entire paper will be a minimum of eight pages long.
You must use at least seven credible sources (excluding Wikipedia, dictionaries and encyclopedias) that are appropriate for the subjects under discussion.
You must use only double-spacing and not place extra spacing between paragraphs or section headings.
As part of your answer to any one of the questions, you must include a graph, table or chart using quantifiable data that supports your argument. You need only one graph for the entire assignment, and although you may download this item from the Internet, it may be no longer than one page
in length. You must comprehensively explain beneath the graph what the
data means. Otherwise, it will be of no use to the reader.