The Challenge for Humanity in the 21st Century – Adapting and Sizing Ourselves to fit within the Capacity of one

Planet.

GROUP 3OREJENES, MJ GULANES, LUXMEREECARMA. FRANK TELIN, SGCANAS, JOMER AMPER, RENIELCLAVEJO, ANDREW BUSTILLO, KATHERINEPELIGRO, LEONARD EDULSA, JANESACAY, JLJOAQUIN, JAYSON

Sustainable development, as that term is commonly used and understood, means making continued economic and social development more resource efficient and less detrimental to the environment.  But making development more sustainable, while highly desirable, is not the same thing as actually achieving sustainability.   As we plan and carry out human development programs we must ensure that our aggregated demands upon the planet’s resources do not exceed the earth’s capacity to supply them.

15 GLOBAL CHALLENGES

1. The first step in achieving true sustainability is recognition of the total scale of human activity. The global footprint network estimates that we are already using 150 percent of the earth’s capacity to regenerate resources, and that does not take into account non-renewable resources, such as fossil fuels.

2. The next step in achieving true sustainability is acknowledging the interconnectedness of all the various subsets of sustainability. Climate change, energy, food, water, population, and the environment are all inter-related, and efforts to address one challenge often exacerbate other global challenges. 

3. The third and crucial step is recognizing that our failure to balance human demands with the capacity of the earth has serious consequences for people today, not just future generations.  Extreme weather patterns and soaring food prices are products of an over-heated, over-subscribed planet, and they are a sign that much worse is to come unless we reduce the total scale of human activity.

GLOBAL WARMING•WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

Global warming is the increase of earth's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from earth. this is a type of greenhouse effect.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. An overwhelming scientific consensus maintains that climate change is due primarily to the human use of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

Research has shown that the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere has increased significantly since the beginning of the industrial era.

Unless we do something to reduce the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere, the world will experience the effects of climate change.

What are the causes of climate change?

The primary cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, which emits greenhouse gases into the atmosphere—primarily carbon dioxide.

TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION

• Nina Glick Schiller defines transnational as “those persons who having migrated from one nation-state to another live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nation-state.”

OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS

• An overseas filipino (filipino: pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of Filipino origin who lives outside of the Philippines. This term applies to Filipinos who are abroad indefinitely as citizens or as permanent residents of a different country and to those filipino citizens abroad for a limited, definite period, such as on a work contract or as students.

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