4. Compare and contrast the functionalist perspective with the conflict perspective of population and environmental problems. Which perspective do you agree with the most? Explain why.
What will be an ideal response?
• Functionalist environmental sociologists take, they believe that solutions to overpopulation and environmental degradation lie in social institutions such as schools and the government
• Analysts using a conflict framework believe that population and environmental problems have less to do with overpopulation and shortages of resources than they have to do with power differentials in societies and in the larger global economy.
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