Question

1. What are the issues involved in climate change/environment and what are countries doing to address them? What is the "tragedy of the commons"?

2. How does population growth affect economic resources and world conflict?

3. What policies have countries adopted to deal with the problem of increasing population?

4. How can information be used as a tool for or against governments?

5. Why are cultural imperialism and ethnocentrism issues in international relations?

Answer 1

1) The major issues regarding the climate change and environmental problems are declining water supplies, health impacts, soil erosion, flooding and degradation of the environment. The climate changes increase the temperature and it leads to depletion of ozone layer. This over heat leads to melting of Ice Mountains and leads to flood in that region. The continuous change in climate change affect the production and distribution of the goods and services and this will create inequality and unethical activities in the economy. Most of the countries introduce several programmes to make control over the economic degradation. Tragedy of commons is the sharing of resources where the individuals act on the basis of self interest. This will affect the sharing of public goods.
2) The increasing population will decrease the per capita income. The increasing pressure of population on natural resources will increase the cost of consumption goods because of the scarcity of the cooperation between the owners of factors of production. The expense will increase with respect to the declining level of capital accumulation. The population rise will make higher exploitation over the natural resources. This will affect the sustainability and the future development. So there is a conflict emerged between the developing nations and this will affect the trade relations also.
3) Government intervention has a huge impact over the increasing population growth. The major measures were offering family planning support and investment over the behavioural change of the people. The family planning considered as a national priority to control the birth rate. The population control will reduce the most important social problems like hunger, poverty, famine and inequality. Ensuring sufficient gap between child births, access for the use of contraceptives, addressing socio cultural barriers, population stabilisation etc. are the most preferring activities of the government.
4) Right to information act helps to find the role of government in social activities. This information right will increase the participation of the people in national activities. Normal people can engage in the national level of activities. This will help to fight against the corruption and also helps to solve the problem of failures of government.
5) Both the cultural imperialism and ethnocentric problems affect the international relations. This affects the economic relations in terms of their resource availability. Cultural imperialism give preference for one own culture. This will leads to understands among the people from different culture. Different forms of ethnocentrism leads to racism in the international relations.