Lisa Ronkowski
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Lisa Ronkowski replied to Jon Lovett
Thanks Jon :-)
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Lisa Ronkowski replied to Jon Lovett
Sounds ideal Jon! Thanks for providing another great reflection, this has now been uploaded
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Lisa Ronkowski replied to Jon Lovett
All done now, Jon, apologies for the delay :-)
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Lisa Ronkowski replied to Aurore Stanek
Hi there, I'm Lisa on the course team. Apologies for the delay. We'd recommend giving it a try on Chrome - can you confirm if you've managed to watch it? The transcript is available as a pdf in the Downloads section :-)
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Course Host here! On Step 1.2, Madeleine Hurd commented "Nice intro. But you didn't intro the idea of "centres of diversity". That I'm looking forward to!"
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A really great discussion so far - please keep using the comments to engage with each other as you move through this course and the other courses within Environmental Challenges!
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Sandy Dequivre commented on step 1.17 with "According to me, the main problem is still the access to education. Of course there are other problems such as the fact that superior castes are wealthier. Obviously, the riches need to help the poor.
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On step 1.17, Iain Preston commented "A number of voices, whether they are in positions of power or are seeking to publicise the issues, have spoken out for the disadvantage castes but still the problem remains. Similarly measures to address the inequalities have been introduced, but this still doesn't deal with the fundamental problem that caste...
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Debra Heald commented on step 1.17 "Education of children is a high priority, education in the sense that they need to be taught about equality."
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Frances Beavis added this to step 1.17 "When travelling India last year I was fortunate to see unexpected positive discrimination in action in a small rural town. A woman from Mumbai purchased land next to a farming community village in the region where her husband originated from. She employed local teenagers to learn a trade whilst renovating a guest house...
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Marzia Cucchetti commented on step 1.17 with "In my opinion, to increase equality is necessary to improve not only the access to education in every years of age, but also to professional tools: if you have the knowledge of a specific area but without the proper tools to develop it, we have the same situation.
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On step 1.17, Ganna Gladkykh commented "Equal access to education is definitely fundamental for fostering equality and everyone's chances to succeed. However, it seems that informal rules of discrimination are so powerful that it might take decades and decades before social norms change. Here...
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On step 1.14, Frances Beavis commented "There is consultation going on currently regarding the creation of a new motorway to relieve traffic pressures in South Wales, however the area identified is semi/protected marshland for wide variety of wetland birds. I suspect regardless of the consultation outcome the decision will be made from above that the motorway...
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On step 1.9, Zoila Menacho asked "just a question: When are institutions ignored because they play no independent role in economic performance?"
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On step 1.8, Ganna Gladkykh commented "An example of elite capture is that public tender offers are not transparent in many former USSR countries which makes the same groups of people get contracts for doing certain works and being paid by public money."
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Chukwudi Nwabuisiaku commented on step 1.8 "An example of elite capture is bidding for construction of national projects are done in such a manner to favor rich construction firms."
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On step 1.8, Debra Heald added "I will use the example of Monsanto for elite capture. They have bought virtually all the seed in the world and claim to own all the worlds food supply. That puts the stability of all nations in the hands of one company."
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For step 1.8, Bendu Kamara Zaizay commented "The Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia is a example elite captures. 50, 000 acres of land planted with natural rubber. Surround communities have no available land to farm."
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On step 1.7, Zoila Menacho commented "Also, in this part I will explain my own experience. I select a product from different retailers (price, quality, availability of the product). Indeed, I try not to support monopolies but instead regional markets. Having enough and transparent information of a product is a key point for me. It is also important to mention,...
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On step 1.7, Ny Aina Andrianarivelo commented "To reduce the transaction costs in the field of natural resource management in Madagascar, I think the best way to do that is to recognise community-based natural resource management through Community empowering and developing and improving favourable policy for its implementation. Once the local community takes...
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Debra Heald also commented on step 1.7, with "Transaction costs can be reduced by building trust. With environmental issues, there has to be a trust between the people and the institutions between scientists and the people."
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On Step 1.6, Debra Heald commented "The main problems that i have found with economic models is that they are all based on two false premises, a. That growth is infinite and b. That resources are infinite. As we have found in nature resources such as fossil fuels, soil quality and precious metals are not infinite, no growth using these resourced is infinite....
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Lee Scott commented on step 1.4 with "Essentially, those who have gained from the overexploitation of fossil fuels (a finite resource) and damaged the environment in the process, are seeking to prevent the developing world from repeating their mistake and thus polluting the common atmospheric resource, possibly irreparably, at the cost of their own...
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On step 1.4, Joshua Williams Kwari added "If there is going to be benefits given to those disadvantaged, how then do we measure or quantify this? And how much benefits does such persons get? Some will definitely be more disadvantaged than others."
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Ny Aina Andrianarivelo added this to step 1.4, "Interesting theory. I am quite agree with this. Happy to learn more. Sometimes, it is necessary to specify that "Equality" means "equality of opportunities" but not other consideration like "Equality as a human being". In the other hand, the second principle which is "inequality" is more a conditional principle:...
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On step 1.4, Jane Ward commented "If equality of opportunity means individual access to inherently unequal political, economic and societal systems then some individuals can improve their situation but in a content that provides limited space for widespread, consistent and sustained equality. A shift of focus to equality of outcome means challenging and...
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On Step 1.4 Bendu Kamara Zaizay commented "The concept of equality will only be realized when powerful and developed countries understand the plaque of developing nations. Until the nations can realize that to preserve nature is everyone's responsibility equality will not be realized."
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Manasi Anand commented on step 1.4 with "While the second principle of justice can be contested, I think it is very significant in contexts where some groups have been socially marginalised due to ethnicity, colour etc."
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Zoila Menacho commented on step 1.4 with "John Rawls has two very social and logic principles, but in my concern it will be more important to analyse deeply the reasons why the less fortunate people need economic and social support. The main point here is to understand why those people are not able to cover by themselves to basic needs."
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On Step 1.4, Eli Terris added "I like Rawls's ideas - but my one concern is they seem a bit anthropocentric. Do the ideas of equality and inequality pertain just to humanity? What about the billions of other organisms that we inhabit the same space with?"
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On Step 1.3, Sonia J commented "1: all the people in our society are equal in every aspect 2: government should obtain a well-paid job for everyone in the society due to their skills."
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Emmanuel Buoro commented on step 1.3 "'Religion' was forged to further divide nations. It has and still is served as the bedrock for wars in our world. I think it should be struck out."
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Also on Step 1.3, Silvia Forno said "I chose "equity" and "respect for nature", although I would add something along the line of put people in the position to develop their true potential. I believe it is in the interest of all humans, and nature we belong to, to have humans capable of finding and expressing their potential/their gift."
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Iain Preston commented on step 1.3 "Given the model, I'm a little surprised by the emphasis given to "Responsible use of resources" as a principle."
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On Step 1.3, Manasi Anand said "I would choose 'equity' and 'respect for nature' as the two basic principles for a society founded on justice"