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Unit 6  |  Social Changes of Sustainable Development 140 powerless and poor typically bear disproportionate costs. All else equal, wider political and economic inequalities tend to result in higher levels of environmental harm. For this reason, efforts to safeguard the natural environment must go hand-in-hand with efforts to achieve more equi- table distributions of power and wealth in human societies. Globalization—the growing integration of markets and governance worldwide—today poses new challenges and new opportunities for both of these goals. WATCH & LEARN http://bit.ly/2uByGA0 Watch the video and respond to the questions below. 1. What is the goal of sustainability? 2. Why do you think sustainability is global in scale? 3. What is the UN Report’s Towards a Green Economy primary goal? video: UN Report: Towards a Green Economy