Ecologists 2. year 11.40 06.05.21

Ecologists 2. year 11.40 06.05.21

1. Please send me your home task for 06.05.21: p.45-46 ex. 3-8

2. Please record an audio of you retelling NOT READING the text (ex. 3, p. 45)

3. Watch this video about Sustainability (Documentary) and answer the questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjrPiIem30g

1) What is “sustainability”?

2) Can you please name the main events (shifts) in socio-ecological system?

3) What does the term “global weirding” mean?

5) What words is the term “sustainability” derived from?

6) What are features of an “unsustainable “ system?

7) Is an electric car always really sustainable?

8) What is a sustainable system?

True or false (video):

1) Today we have an abundance of people and goods but scarcity of natural capital.

2) Now it is industry and people that need to be economized.

3) The linear economic model is the economy as a process of take, make and dispose.

4) Materials and energy don’t go on existing after we use them.

5) Our systems should work like organisms processing nutrients that can be fed back into the cycle.

6) People want access to the ownership of products, but not access to services.

7) Sustainable organizations are organizations that can evolve over time.

Do you agree? What kind of thinking do people need to solve existing ecological problems? (video)

A famous person once said we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

4. Home task for our next class: p. 48 ex.1,2,3, p. 49-50 ex.1,2