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ETHICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE
1. Consume Less and Donate Money and Time
2. Fair Trade
3. Use Alternative Economic Measures
Here are some ways of being more Socially Responsible.
Bill Gates spends over $3 billion on charitable causes
1) Consume Less/DonateSarah McLachlan was determined to make a statement with the new video for her single "World On Fire."
It was McLachlan's desire to assist those in need by arranging for the video's production costs to be donated to charities around the globe instead of being spent on the video.
World on FireThose expenses
that are customary for a video production were sent to a list
of 11 charities with total funds
equaling $150,000.
Sarah could produce an average music video for $150,000, or make a difference to over 1,000,000 people? Here are some of the ways they did make a difference.
1. $5000 = cost of make up and hair for one day, OR 1 years schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan
2. $10,200 = 2 hours of film stock, OR 6 wells built in six different countries
World on Fire
3. $3,500 = one production supervisor, OR schooling and support for 70 children of war in Sierra Leone
4. In LA, catering for one day shoot = $3,000, OR 10,950 meals for children in Calcutta
5. Schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania = $2500 and Education for 200 students in Ethiopia = $400
World on Fire
Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries to make better trading conditions and promote sustainability.
2) Fair Trade - An alternate trade system
The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to exporters as well as higher social, workplace and environmental standards.
2) Fair Trade - An alternate trade system
Fair Trade
It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate, flowers, and gold
2) Fair Trade - An alternate trade system
Black Gold Coffee documentary- clip 3.5 min
Compare and Contrast the fair trade practices of Tim Hortons and Starbucks. (links attached to the past 2 pages)
Profit and GDP do not take into account ethical
behavior. So shouldn’t we look at stats.
that do?
Have you heard of any ways of
measuring ethics?
3) Alternative economic measures
3) Alternative economic measures
1. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)2. Environmental Accounting 3. Gross National Happiness
is an alternative system that is used in addition to gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of economic growth.
The GPI is used in green economics, sustainability and more inclusive types of economics commonly known as "True Cost" economics. It distinguishes between worthwhile growth and uneconomic growth.
1) Genuine Progress Indicator(GPI)
Certain "costs" of economic activity were not being factored into GDP. These include the following potential harmful effects of:
1. Resource depletion2. Crime3. Ozone depletion4. Family breakdown5. Air, water, and noise pollution6. Loss of farmland7. Loss of wetlands
However, GDP is held up as a value neutral measure. It is relatively straightforward to measure compared to GPI.
2) Environmental Accounting
Environmental accounting identifies resource use, measures and communicates costs of the economic impact on the environment. Costs include costs to clean up or remediate contaminated sites, environmental fines, penalties and taxes, purchase of pollution prevention technologies and waste management costs.
Cap and Trade
Environmental Simulation
You will be participating in a opportunity cost analysis exercise to identify the opportunity costs of a decision in which environmental quality is an issue in trade between two states in the United States.
Here is the situation ….
Trash – It Has to Go Somewhere
Despite an active recycling program and a successful ongoing campaign to reduce per-household garbage, the city of Bayview is facing a trash problem. Its last remaining landfill is rapidly reaching capacity and the city must decide what to do about disposal of solid waste. The available options are:
1. Build a new city-owned landfill2. Build a city-owned waste energy
incineration facility3. Pay to dump in landfills in neighboring
counties4. Contract to ship waste out of the state
Instructions
Distribute the student handout and go through the instructions to make sure that students understand the task.
You will be assigned a Bayview role. Complete the grid and the 5 minute presentation.
Make a 5 minute Presentation to Council
Direct the group reporter to read aloud the group’s role description before beginning the presentation.
Direct members of the class to pretend that they are on the city council and will have to vote on the Bayview trash issue.
Debriefing Questions:
1. How did you vote and why?
2. Which solution provides greatest environmental quality?
Shipping the garbage to Flatland County in the next state.
Debriefing Questions:
In which solution are the Bayview residents most able to escape some of the costs of their own garbage?
The incineration option, because it won’t be possible to prevent any air pollution that is generated from blowing to other areas.
Debriefing Questions:
Which solution promises to generate the most benefits for the greatest number of people?
The Flatland County Landfill option, which not only rids Bayview of its garbage, but does so in the most environmentally friendly way and also generates income for the residents of Flatland.
Debriefing Questions:
Should Bayview be allowed to pollute – that is, to reduce the environmental quality – of Flatland County?
1) the trash must go somewhere and 2) the Flatlanders chose to accept lower environmental quality. One pointed way to bring home the trade-off is to turn the question around and ask if it’s OK for Bayview to deny Flatland the chance to move out of poverty.
Debriefing Questions:In this exchange, or trade, between Bayview and Flatland County, what is being bought and sold? And who is the seller and who is the buyer?
Flatland is selling, or exporting to Bayview the use of one of its natural resources, the land used for the disposal of trash. Bayview is purchasing, or importing, the use of that natural resource. In this case the resource is the land that is well suited to use as a landfill, but it could be the natural resource of timber, clean water, iron ore, or oil.
Debriefing Questions:
Economists point out that if an exchange is voluntary, it creates wealth. The Bayview – Flatland exchange is voluntary, so it must create wealth. That is, both sides benefit. Should the residents of Flatland County be allowed to accept lower environmental quality in return for higher income?
Debriefing Questions:
Help students to understand that decisions about resources always involve trade-offs of environmental quality and the benefits of whatever is produced by using the environment. Also help them to see that questions of property rights are involved here, too. How should people’s property rights be defined or limited when environmental quality is at stake?
Debriefing
This exercise is based on a real situation. Bayview is the city of Seattle, and Flatland is Gilliam County, Oregon. Gilliam County lobbied actively for Seattle’s trash and was awarded a contract. Each day at 4:00 p.m. a fifty-car container train leaves Seattle to make the 340-mile trip to Gilliam County, Oregon. Each year more than 475,000 tons of municipal solid waste is hauled.
3) Gross National HappinessThe assessment of Gross National Happiness was designed in an attempt to define an indicator that measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic and psychological terms than only the economic indicator of gross domesticproduct.(GDP)
Bhutan
Gross National Happiness value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:
1. Economic Wellness:2. Environmental
Wellness:3. Physical Wellness:4. Mental Wellness5. Workplace Wellness:6. Social Wellness:7. Political Wellness GNH Explained
Bhutan
BTTFamily Feuds
Partner Feud –
List 5
Who are the Happiest Countries ? (greater than 4 Million)
Answers Next Slide
Scan in List
At the Bottom of the List
