1.Description:

In this first discussion, share with classmates what your current perspectives are about the environment.

Describe your ethical perspective, or worldview, as it pertains to your relationship with the environment.

How do you think your culture has influenced your world?

How do you think your personal experience has influenced it?

Do you feel that you fit into any particular category discussed in this chapter? Why or why not?

2.Description:

Explore some ways in which our economies are dependent on environmental services and resources.

Discuss ways in which policies are created, specifically those that pertain to environmental issues that impact the economy.

Explain how international issues such as oil spills, nuclear accidents or air pollutions are handled via policies by inter governmental agencies..