1. Why are networks better than hierarchies?
Hierarchies lack flexibility and are slow with external changes, people are more information transmitters than independent agents, and people at the top end up swamped with high rates of change. Networks make it more level and easier to control.
2. What is a nation state and how is it being threatened?
a physical territory with a political system, environmental system, and economic system..
3. How is civil society gaining legitimacy over government agencies? Give an example of a NGO (Non-Government Agency) whose goals and services you think are beneficial to solving a global problem.
Civil society has become a powerful force. They have grown more complex and knowledgable. People trust them more. UNICEF fights hunger. I think it is a good organization.
4. How can business be a helpful global enforcer?
Their solutions are helpful. With their breakthroughs, desalination, new vaccines and drugs, safer everything, etc. they become helpful.
Their solutions are helpful. With their breakthroughs, desalination, new vaccines and drugs, safer everything, etc. they become helpful.
5. What can too much economic and social change lead too?
a dangerous gap(: -- political backlash, autarchy, adn authoritarian forms of control that can destroy liveral values and human freedoms
6. What Global Issue concerns you the most? Why?
I don't know a whole lot about any of the other global stresses besides environmental stesses. So therefore it concerns me the most. For my last two years of high school, I realized the impact we have been having on the environment and simple ways that we can help stop or better the environment. But does anyone, including myself on occasions, do them? No. People don't care or take into consideration what they are doing to it. Nor do they know. When the day comes that their house just caves in, we run out of fresh water, or precious food... Then people will be concerned. But by then, its too late.
I don't know a whole lot about any of the other global stresses besides environmental stesses. So therefore it concerns me the most. For my last two years of high school, I realized the impact we have been having on the environment and simple ways that we can help stop or better the environment. But does anyone, including myself on occasions, do them? No. People don't care or take into consideration what they are doing to it. Nor do they know. When the day comes that their house just caves in, we run out of fresh water, or precious food... Then people will be concerned. But by then, its too late.
UNICEF Great example of a NGO! I'm very hopeful that we can turn things around! I think that environmental organizations need to do a better job of highlighting the progress we have made in making the environment cleaner rather than focusing on the negatives all the time. I think it make people, especially, young people feel overwhelmed and fatalistic. We can do it!
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