{"id":12808,"date":"2016-09-13T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf101\/?page_id=12808"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:49:06","slug":"case-for-transformation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf101\/learning-pathways\/sustainability-is-entirely-possible\/case-for-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Case for transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The institutions of business and industry have helped us achieve significant improvements to our quality of life over the last 250 years. Today, nearly everything we do is connected to economic activity of some sort, and the majority of social and environmental pressures we face arise from the way we run our economies.\n<\/p>\n

The ecological human<\/i> life-supporting systems of Earth are threatened by technical progress and development of modern industrial systems over the last 250 years, combined with rapid population growth.
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This activity is designed to provide an opportunity to practice posting a comment to the Course Feed<\/a> using our WEnotes technology.\n<\/p>\n

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  1. You will need to register<\/b> on this course site by clicking on the user icon ( <\/i>) in the site menu and completing the form. You need to be logged in to post using WEnotes before attempting this activity.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Take a moment to think about the social or environmental problems that you consider to be important.\n