Assignment task:
Identify the Issue of my topic: The environmental issue I want to address is the overuse of single-use plastics. These plastics are not biodegradable and often end up in our oceans, harming marine life and polluting the environment.
Set Clear Goals to my action plan: My goal is to reduce my personal use of single-use plastics by 50% by the end of the term.
1. How can I summarize this topic?
2. Describe three or more points connecting this topic/action plan to environmental concepts and principles.
3. Define at least three vocabulary terms (jargon) your reader needs to understand for your topic/action plan.
Timeline:
- Provide a brief synopsis of the historical development of the topic from inception through modern-day usages.
- Focusing on the most significant developments. What are they?
- Both in American culture as well as the global culture.
- And contributors
Current Perspectives
- Define environmental sustainability.
- Provide 1 example of the ethics that guides the United States regarding environmental sustainability.
- Provide 1 example of the ethics that guides the global community regarding environmental sustainability.
- Discuss the importance of this topic to environmental sustainability for:
- you,
- your nation,
- and the global community as a whole
Ethics and Environmental Sustainability
- Define and compare ethics, morality, and legality as it relates to your selected topic.
- How might politics and economics influence ethics (personally, nationally, and globally)?
- Provide 3 examples of the personal ethics that guide you as it pertains to environmental sustainability.