In: Economics
The film An Inconvenient Truth presents us with the externalized costs of profit. Consider these possible discussion topics: How do we manage sustainability in energy, food, land, health care, and so on, with the equally compelling need for each of these? What is the more immediate need—that of resources or that of human conflict over the resources? Will overconsuming nations develop the will to act and to downsize; will underconsuming nations demand a greater share? Use the film as a springboard for discussing developing a sustainable economy—locally as well as globally.