Industry/the Environment/Human Rights
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Human rights are the fundamental freedoms essential to living a full life. Regardless of your sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, economic status or sexual orientation, human rights belong to all people. Throughout history and still today, not everyone enjoys full realization of these rights.
The relationship between the natural environment and human culture is a two-way street. Too often, only one part is asserted: that the form of the natural environment influences (or, in extreme cases, determines) the human culture of a place. Mountains may prove obstacles to communication, but transport technology overcomes the barriers. Climate may limit the growth of certain crops, but irrigation or greenhouse protection can extend a plant's natural limits. As human technology expands, people are able to adapt to the limitation once placed by the natural environment. Besides technological adaptation, humans have increasingly modified their natural environment, shaping it to their needs. Clearing forests for agriculture or grazing, paving surfaces for urban areas, damming rivers, exploiting minerals, polluting air, streams and oceans, are all examples of the permanent changes to the natural world resulting from human culture. In this unit we will explore the relationship and interactions between industry, the environment and human rights. We will wrestle with difficult issues like environmental racism and corporate social responsibility. Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions
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unit Assignments
Read the following documents and watch the six videos. When you are finished write a reflection in your notebook about how you think we can begin to live more sustainably. Your reflection should be no less than 500 words.
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Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and rewrite it in the first person. Click Here
Read three texts of your choice (one must be a book approved by me) and write a critical analysis of each text in your notebook.
Due Dates
All work is due before the end of the unit. Whatever you cannot complete in class needs to be done as homework. Your notebook will be collected and graded twice, about halfway through the unit and at the end of the unit. Do not wait to turn work in. As you finish a task, give it to me for feedback and grading.
All work is due before the end of the unit. Whatever you cannot complete in class needs to be done as homework. Your notebook will be collected and graded twice, about halfway through the unit and at the end of the unit. Do not wait to turn work in. As you finish a task, give it to me for feedback and grading.