The Development of Global Environmentalism
Using the text as well A Map of Time for Chapter 22 and Chapter 23, Map 23.4, and the Snapshots, World Population Growth 1950-2011 and Global Development and Inequality, 2011, consider the rise of environmentalism over the past 50 years and how environmentalism fits fit into the larger story of world history by answering the questions below.
Questions
What environmental issues is the world currently facing?
How has the growth of population contributed to the environmental challenges we face today?
How has globalization helped to both aggravate environmental problems as well as help to find global solutions to these contemporary challenges?
What events on the timeline for Chapter 23 can be linked together to show why there was a new wave of ecological consciousness after 1960?
Based on your understanding of Chapter 23, what more do you need to know to explain fully the global historical context of environmentalism?