Explain the relationship between environmental degradation and social inequalities.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Those who benefit most from the model of production currently being used in the world, which is polluting, are richer people and people in richer countries.
2. Those living in poverty experience most of the burden of pollution, toxins, etc. in their health outcomes and communities.
3. This situation is known as “environmental racism.”
4. The movement to combat environmental racism is called “environmental justice.”
Learning Objective: 14.3.2 Discuss environmental racism and what progress is being made to ensure equal
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b. Being nomadic. c. Society organized around the family. d. Role differentiation based on gender.
Research on race and reference groups indicates that a. school desegregation is most important in raising the self-esteem of Black children
b. positive representations of ethnic and racial groups raises the self-esteem of children of those groups. c. reference groups have little or no effect on self-esteem. d. how groups are presented has no impact on their effectiveness as reference groups for children.
Those societies that have attempted to implement the ideas of Marx on a large scale:
a. developed well-defined systems of stratification b. developed the classless society that Marx predicted c. formed a system giving the highest rank to well-educated technical workers d. reverted to feudal systems of stratification
Which of the following statements is true of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by President Barack Obama in 2009?
A. It authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco products themselves in specific ways. B. It includes any product containing nicotine intended for human consumption, except e-cigarettes, pipes, and nicotine gel. C. It allows for the claims of "modified health risks" by cigarette manufactures until such claims are challenged in the federal courts. D. It excludes a variety of electronic cigarettes and other devices from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules.