Dr. Michael Klare on “Global Scarcity” Scramble for Dwindling Natural Resources” in the Yale Environment 360 web site.

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Sunday, November 27, 201611:59 PM

Points Possible

100

  1. In this module you will be submitting Essay 3 that you started in module 5. You should have received feedback from your instructor and incorporated this into your work on this essay.

Please read carefully the interview with Dr. Michael Klare on “Global Scarcity” Scramble for Dwindling Natural Resources” in the Yale Environment 360 web site.

Dr. Klare mentions several different resources that he believes will be defining the political and environmental realities of the 21st century. The interview highlights the perspective that it is not actually running-out of these things but their increasing scarcity and the extreme methods we will be using to extract them that is the important concern. The threat to the environment comes from these new extreme extraction processes and the locations where they can be found.

Your Essay 3 final submission is due during Module 6.
For Essay #3, you will write a 1500 – 2000 word (6-7 pages) paper, not including the title page or the references page.

For your Essay 3:

  • Select ONE of the natural resources that Dr. Klare

  • Research the environmental and health dangers that he mentions, as well as any others you can find and discuss these in detail. Be sure to use multiple sources that are academic research based not web sites supported either by industry or environmental groups that each have an agenda to push.

  • Research any efforts being undertaken to ameliorate these concerns and discuss if it is sufficient or if the dangers are too great to continue with this extraction method.

  • Explore which developing countries are impacted by the exploration and extraction of this resource. How has this shaped their economy?

  • Discuss the growing demand from developing countries for this resource and the equitable distribution of this resource.

  • Discuss the balance between the need for this resource to continue our life style, the growing economies of the developing world and the need to protect the environment.

  • What can or should we give up or can we have it all? Will alternative sources that are less threatening to the environment be available in time?

  • How does the push for controlling greenhouse gases around the world impact the extraction and use of this resource?

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Essay 3 is worth 15% of your total course grade and will be evaluated using the SLA Writing Rubric [227.3 KB PDF file].  Please review the rubric carefully so that you are aware of how you will be graded.

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