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BOITUMELO MASHEGO
Learning activity 12
14 Jun 2021, 20:04
According to Kohler (2016) South Africa is one of the driest countries in the world, the 30th most driest country. Because we don't get enough rain, when it rains the ground evaporates the water. The demand for water and electricity is high especially now during the winter season. According to Sarkodie and Adams (2020) the rich benefit because they have the necessary resources.
2. According to Calma (2011) social justice means to find a balance between our responsibilities as individuals to contribute to a just society.
3. According to Rathzel (2018) Environmental social justice means it is a justice for people who have been left out during environmental problems.
4. The Wetland project helps to provide water, it also creates jobs. So that people are able to put food on the table.
5. The state of the environment in South Africa is in a bad state, we use many resources in order to maintain the country such as coal for electricity.
Learning activity 11
14 Jun 2021, 16:16
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The conversation
The economic
Non-state actors
Local views
2.
The conversation is that the nature does not need human interference, it restores itself. Nature requires humans to maintain it. Nature panics about the state of the environment
The economic view the objective is that the environment is seen as a commodity that is primarily there for selling and buying, the view is seen as an economic asset.
The non-state actor motivation for the approach is a belief in the value of the environment that should be protected and respected.
The local community view the approach is influenced by the nature of the environment, it is informed by time, place and circumstances.
3.
They all do, they all help us understand the SA environment. We get to understand what we as humans do to harm the environment and how we can protect it.
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Sustainable development and accounting and valuation of ecosystem services project.
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We can use the Ecosystem Accounting to provide us with the systematic way to measure and track many flows of natural capital.
Learning activity 9
14 Jun 2021, 15:23
Environmental problems pose a serious threat to all living species, such as Ozone depletion leading to climate change, overpopulation, land disturbance. The decline in Freshwater. Regarding the SA context Western cape experienced a water crisis in 2017 and 2018. Which is still ongoing, society plays a negative role by polluting the air ,water and soil. Our own activities affect us because we do not protect the planet. We have seen physical calamities hitting us more frequently such as floods, tsunamis and cyclones.
Learning activity 4
26 Mar 2021, 18:46
According to Townsend ( Townsend, 1979) "individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions. So basically according to experts Relative Poverty is when a family has not had a week's holiday away from home in the last 12 months, when they are not able to afford basic needs.
A family has not had a friend to come over for tea, or a child did not celebrate his/her birthday, or a child has not been out for entertainment in the last 2 weeks. The list goes on, or a family does not have fresh meat in 4 days. They are fall under Relative Poverty, as well as when a family has gone 1 or more days in the past 2 weeks without a cooked meal. A family is poor when they do not have a refrigerator or if they do not have a flushing toilet, sink, cold water tap or shower they are seen as being poor.
Learning activity 3
19 Mar 2021, 15:25
What are the benefits of poverty for the individual and the community.
Being poor is very bad especially now in the 21st century because the standard of living is very very high and things are just more expensive than back in the days, being poor leads to chronic diseases because your always stressed about getting the next meal or putting food on the table for your loved ones.
Many poor people go as far as taking drugs to ease stress, poverty has many benefits such as getting assistance from the government and community organizations. Poor people are able to develop skills and get a job so that they can get minimum wages, the Government can also assist by providing free medical services. Poor children are able to get free lunch at school and financial assistance.
Many organizations donate to poor communities in order to help them with things they lack, all in all being poor is bad but at least things have improved nowadays then back in the days in order to help the poor.
Learning activity 2
11 Mar 2021, 17:30
The two theoretical approaches that will be discussed is conflict theory and symbolic interactionist
Conflict theory it talks about the effects of inequality based on social class, race, gender. This theory believes that in order to reduce social inequality, certain measures should be undertaken so that people are equal and get equal opportunities. People with the higher ranks are the ones that benefit, resources become scarce the richer gets richer and the poor gets poor. On the other hand we have symbolic interactionist theory people come up with their own roles rather than the one that has been given to them by society. It's all about what you take from the next person, if your in a bad situation and you see someone with the same situation doing something wrong you also do the same bad thing. You copy that person's wrong doings, conflict theory talks about the effects of inequality while symbolic interactionist emphasizes on how one takes information from interacting with others and how social problems arise from just merely interacting with others, which is based on words and gestures.