
Basics introduction to the course.
The next step is a questionnaire on environmental literacy. We have 2 questionnaires having 10 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) each.
The tentative time for each questionnaire is 10 minutes. As you attempt these questions, you can check back the answers given below. Have a thought 'why' behind that answer. Discuss it with your friends, colleagues, and search over books or the internet. Feel free to share your findings and thought process in the discussion forum.
There are serious challenges to economic growth in present times. We want to achieve sustainable development.
1. Moving from Quantity to Quality
2. Economic model to Human Self Development
3. Patriarchal society to Holistic paradigm of Equity
4. TINA approach to Strategy of Design
5. Polluter pays principle
6. Appropriate technology & Community Owned Firms
In this video, let's learn the objectives of Sustainable Development. So that we will be able to understand its scope.
Sustainable development is a value-based concept that appeals to the universal theme of mutual coexistence and respect for others. It is a continually evolving process bringing together cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political concerns.
1. To maintain the standard of living of the largest number of people with equity and justice.
2. To conserve and protect the earth’s natural resources from misuse and wasteful consumption.
3. To innovate new technology and scientific techniques which work in unison with the laws of nature and not opposed to it.
4. To respect diversity and involve local and indigenous communities
5. To decentralize governance institutions and make them more resilient, transparent, and accountable to people. 6. To plan international institutions which recognize the requirements of poor nations and support them to achieve their growth targets
7. To seek peaceful coexistence of all nations of the world
In this course, we will look at some of the prevalent environmental myths and try to learn the true facts. Why it is important?
This is essential because in this era of information, we often get a lot of data, and we get lost in it. A lot of environmental myths are prevalent and hence we are getting devoid of true understanding and hence true solutions for the problems.
To find the solution it is very essential to understand the problem in its entirety. As said by Systems Thinker Peter Senge, 'Today's problems are the Yesterday's solutions'. This statement always makes me think about the problems we all are facing in the current times, from pollution to population, from plastic pollution to degradation of ecosystems, from increased lifestyle diseases to psychological issues we are facing, all are somewhat result of some kind of solutions we created to avoid some problems in the past. The hastily made decisions or policies formed with short-term narrow thinking have led us to newer and increasing problems.
These questions from the course will definitely help you to truly understand the environmental issues and thought-provoking action items are also shared, that you can implement in your day-to-day life to start for the environment- Nature conscious life.
I hope this short course will help you to make your own informed choices about your own life, and potentially make tangible differences on a broader global scale as well!