Amazon Forever
Introduction
Industrialization and modernization have been desires of many countries
over the years. They are also extremely important goals in making a state rich
and competitive in the world market. The countries that succeeded in
industrialization and modernization have gone on to become great world powers.
They are now advanced enough to understand the environmental damage they cause
while on their journey to industrialization and modernization. However, states
that did not industrialize and modernize at the level of such countries like
the United States still desire to. Latin American countries are one example.
The industrial countries of the world seek to prevent lesser-developed
countries from damaging the environment as they did when they were
industrializing. However, these lesser-developed countries believe the
industrialized countries are tying to deter more market competition by
preventing them from taking the measures they desire for their progress.
Countries, such as Brazil, become exceedingly irritated about this. Also, problems
with overpopulation have forced some countries to allow rainforests to be
destroyed to accommodate the ever-growing population. They do this at complete
risk to the environment.
In this presentation
we will give a detailed summary of this happening by using the Amazon
Rainforest to illustrate that environmental damage anywhere can affect many, if
not all states, directly or indirectly. We will also suggest three future
scenarios for this problem.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=COW943mgEMc
Links to Major Components
- Nature of Problem/Issue and Role of NGOs and IGOs
- Scenario or Policy Option 1
- Scenario or Policy Option 2
- Scenario or Policy Option 3
- Most Probable or Preferred Policy Option
- WWW Resources on Issue
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