Global Environmental Trends and Challengse

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The field of sustainability has grown dramatically over the last decade or so. The earth is experiencing five global trends that are interrelated. They are population growth, economic disparity, energy transition, ecosystem decline, and climate change. This essay discusses climate change and what one country is doing about it. They have a program that will make them oil-independent by 2020. The program is explained and evaluated using the SPIRALS framework. There are three sources used in this three page paper.