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Where Do You Stand

Statement: Government regulation and international cooperation are the answers to environmental problems.

What’s in the news?

Go to the following website to review some questions and answers about the U.S. approach to global warming and climate change. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1820523.stm

What do the experts say?

“Someone who agrees with this statement might reflect a liberal ideological stance. A conservative ideological stance would call more for free market forces and the protection of U.S. national interests as the best way to solve environmental problems”

What do you think?

Share your thoughts about this subject in the class.

  1. How do different ideological stances affect human ecology and the environment itself?
  2. Are there other ways to solve environmental problems?

Where do you stand?

Now you’ve had a chance hear other people’s views, take the Online Poll.



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