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LEARNING ACTIVITY 12

10 Jun 2021, 22:53 Publicly Viewable
  1. According to Kohler (2016) South Africa is the 30th driest country in the world. Because we have a very low annual rainfall and when it rains the ground evaporates the water and it re-enters the atmospheric phase almost instantly. A challenge SA face is that only 20% of South Arica's ground water can be used, which limits the water availability even further. The need of water intensifies each year, with more people demanding more water and the country lack resources to manage and supply the water for everyone. Sarkodie and Adams (2020) highlights how many south Africans are unable to afford electricity and the country is in debt. This is caused by the income inequality, it has a negative effect on access to electricity whereas income level and human development have a positive impact on access to electricity. In South Africa, there is an undeniable income inequality between the poor and the rich and the consequence therefore is that the poor cannot afford to pay for energy.
  2. Calma (2011) defines social justice as the balance between our collective responsibilities as a society and our responsibilities as individuals to contribute to a just society.
  3.  According to Rathzel (2018) environmental social justice means that it is a type of justice for people who has been "left out" during environmental problems. For example in South Africa with all the mines, our air is getting polluted and people being chronically sick. So the environmental social justice is there to help those who suffers under the environmental conditions and be compensated.

4. The wedland project helps to pure the water, provide water and to manage the water flow in poverty effective areas. This project also helped to provide job opportunities to at least 2000 people  who suffers under poverty.  Making their lives a little bit more easy.

5. The state of the environment in South Africa is very bad and it is only getting worse. Almost all of our resources such as coals for electricity and water resources are finished. So we are forced to use other, more expensive ways to provide electricity and water to people. This is not convenient and not environment friendly, because a lot of people in South Africa are poor and cannot afford to make this change and it adds on the depletion of the ozone layer.