Grand Canyon University Critical Threats to the Global Environment Discussion

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 during 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 for research and writing this assignment:

Step 1 Select two (2) threats of the 8 threats: Listed Below. The following eight

threats are issues that the United Nations Council believe to be the most serious to

global security. Some of these threats 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.

Eight (8) Issue Options

1. The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.

2. Globalization.

3. Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.

4. A lack of access to technology.

5. Civil war in a developing country, (NOT the U.S. Civil War).

6. The rise in oceans’ levels.

7. Covid-19 and the global pandemic. (Use factual science-based information).

8. The dangers of poor countries (not continents) remaining poor (be specific—choose

at least two factors that negatively impact global conditions associated with persistent

poverty)

Step 2 Total page count for this assignment is 10 pages. Class, this means that

your paper will contain a Title page, a Reference/Source page, 8 pages of

research material (content) this includes a full page dedicated to a graph or

statistical table indicating information about one threat. If anyone does not

understand the page requirements of this assignment, please contact me.

Your paper will contain 7 (seven) pages of well researched information and the 1

(one) page graph/table about your two threats. Please provide a brief description

about the table/graph and cite the source. You may copy and paste the

graph/table into the body of your paper.

Again, this gives you a total of eight (8) pages of researched information. This is

NOT an opinion-based paper, you may offer your personal thoughts in the

Discussion/Summary section, however, all information must be fact-based from

reliable and credible academic sources.

Please select one developing country (from Week 6) or choose another

developing country (for at least one of your two threats). You may choose from

the World Bank List of Developing Countries (see Course Information in

BlackBoard). NOTE! Class, do not choose the continents of Africa, Asia or other

continents as a threat subject for this paper, you cannot adequately address any

continent in this assignment.

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:

1. Identify the factors that make it such a serious risk to the global environment that you

would choose to present it to the UN

2. Analyze the role that humans have played in aggravating this threat to the Earth’s

environment.

3. Suggest initiatives that the global community can take to mitigate the worst effects of

this environmental threat.

4. Write a conclusion paragraph of at least one-half page in length that summarizes

your impressions of these risks for global stability.