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Sociology's most important contribution to our understanding of environmental issues is
 
  a. showing that we need to modify the natural environment so it can always support many kinds of societies.
  b. declaring that the world will inevitably perish due to environmental problems.
  c. demonstrating that social issues affect the natural environment.
  d. knowing that human technology makes us the superior species in our world.

Question 2

How does each of these political points of viewconservative, liberal, and radical left, understand global inequality and poverty in the world? What solutions are favored by each point of view?
 
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Answer to Question 1

(Answer: c)

Answer to Question 2

 Radical-Left View: The world's wealth is concentrated in a handful of very rich nations. Replace the capitalist world economy with a system that values people above profits, eliminate multinational corporations, use land to grow food for local consumption, and cancel foreign debt.
 Liberal View: Most people in rich nations have more than they need, but 1.2 billion people around the world contend with a poor diet, inadequate housing, and little education. The rich of the world must share their wealth in the form of foreign aid that will improve health, schooling, and housing; oppose sweatshops; and support land reform.
 Conservative View: Although more than 5 billion people in the world live far better than our ancestors several centuries ago, 1.2 billion of the world's people remain poor. Allow the productive power of the market to raise the living standards of poor nations today as it has done in the past; encourage capital investment and technology transfers to poor nations.



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