C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - First this morning (in #115) look at the differences between a linear and circular economy. We'll take 20 minutes to watch the Story of Stuff and other videos on a circular economy
A case Study...Fast Fashion and the global Textiles industry (from the pdf below)
- The current system for producing, distributing, and using clothing operates on a predominantly take-make-dispose (linear) model. High volumes of non-renewable resources are extracted to produce clothes that are often used for only a short period, after which the materials are largely lost to landfill or incineration
- It is estimated that more than half of ‘fast fashion’ produced is disposed of in under a year
- Today’s linear system uses large amounts of resources and has negative impacts on the environment and people
Why Fashion Needs to Be More Sustainable (Columbia Climate School)
A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future (Ellen Macarthur Foundation)
What is a circular economy? (Ellen Macarthur Foundation)
What is the linear economy? (Ellen Macarthur Foundation)
What are linear versus circular economies? Boise State University
How Buying Stuff Drives Climate Change Columbia Climate School
Second block we'll be in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our local environmental issue major research / interview project
A Block Legal Studies - For your project, there are a few things you should know about negligence.
This is an unintentional or an intentional civil wrong (tort). Negligence is the most common civil tort (inattention, carelessness, and the possibility of harm) and there are 4 components to the “Test for Negligence:
- Duty of Care – The Plaintiff must prove that the Defendant had the legal obligation not to cause harm on their property (The “neighbour principle” – you have a responsibility to take reasonable care for the safety of anyone who may be harmed by your actions)
- Breach in the Duty of Care (Standard of Care) – The Plaintiff must prove that the Defendant did not meet the expected standard of care owed to them (based on the “Reasonable Person Principle” – concept of “Foreseeability”)
- Causation – Once the Plaintiff has proven the Defendant didn’t meet the Standard of Care there needs to be a determination of “direct causality” (“but for…” principle – but for the actions of the Defendant the Plaintiff would not have been harmed – sometimes the acts speak for themselves “Res Ipsa Loquitor”).
- Actual Harm/Loss – The Plaintiff must prove that real damages occurred to them as a result of the Defendant’s negligent acts
1. Did you have a responsibility to someone?
2. Did you fail in your responsibility-How?
3. Did you cause them harm?
4. Did the suffer an actual loss?
Conduct is negligent if it creates an objectively unreasonable risk of harm.
To avoid liability, a person must exercise the standard of care that would be expected of an ordinary, reasonable and prudent person in the same circumstances.
The measure of what is reasonable depends on the facts of each case, including:
• the likelihood of a known or foreseeable harm,
• the gravity of that harm, and
• the burden or cost which would be incurred to prevent the injury.
In addition, one may look to external indicators of reasonable conduct:
• such as custom,
• industry practice, and
• statutory or regulatory standards
After we'll go over the cases you can choose from. Tomorrow, we'll look over information about damages
B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at Sri Lanka and the conflict between the Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority, watching parts of the Anthony Bourdain Sri Lanka episode of Parts Unknown. For help ThoughtCo. has a nice piece on the Civil War as does Al Jazeera.
After, we'll focus on Lebanon and India. The partition of India displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million as the British left India and religious communities were pitted against one another. The Guardian has a good article Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition and the Conversation has an article How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today and there's also a good piece on the BBC Partition of India: My memories
OH WAIT...Don't forget Jammu & Kashmir
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