Week 6: Saving the planet

Question 1

Sustainable development

Answer 1

• Social and economic progress
• Within the limits of the earth’s natural resources
• Doesn’t compromise future generations to meet their needs

Question 2

Global Warming

Answer 2

• ## Increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere

Question 3

Destruction of wildlife
What has been lost since the rise of human civilization

Answer 3

83% of wild mammals
80% of marine mammals
50% of plants
15% of fish

Question 4

Human’s ecological footprint: plastics

Answer 4

Plastics have been the main source of ocean pollution since 2000
Large corporations are still investing $180 billion in the global plastic industry threatening to propel a 40% rise in production of plastics

Question 5

MNCs are at the center of globalization

Answer 5

Transfers of goods
Transfers of technology
Conveyor belts between producers and consumers
Bringing jobs to developing countries

Question 6

When MNCs are at the center of globalization

Answer 6

They are blamed for the ills of globalization

Question 7

Corporate economic power

Answer 7

The ten largest corporations have combined revenue of more than 180 countries

Question 8

Evidence for corporate political power

Answer 8

Favorable tax code
High drug prices

Question 9

Reforming MNCs

Answer 9

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Limiting monopolies
Reforming corporate governance
Global laws

Question 10

What does corruption do?

Answer 10

Corruption corrodes public trust, undermines the rule of the law, and delegitimizes the state