 | Guiding Inquiry: How can you use your interests for a future career to help make the planet better for everyone? (2.1.b, 2.2.d) Guiding Thought Question: Why does it make sense that workers for the private sector (for-profit businesses) would make more over the course of their career than people working in the public sector (non-profit or government)? Explain a reason and how this might affect the impact this will have on the goal of environmental conservation. Today's Learning Objective: Students will learn about different careers related to environmental conservation and what they would need to do to further pursue them, and how they could use their work to help the environment by conducting a webquest and making an informational poster. |
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Lauren S
3/23/2022 07:38:01 am
People working in the private sector often have different clients and funding than the public sector. A successful private sector business can afford to pay workers more because the business gets the bigger share of the profit. Private businesses are profit driven to keep the business afloat but in the public sector sometimes funding is assured for at least a year (not always). Conservation needs people working because they love the work but people also need to be monetarily compensated appropriately.
Helena
3/23/2022 07:41:43 am
It would make sense that workers in the private sector make more money because they are doing the work for profit only. This means that the people working would only care about something only if it makes a profit, which could mean that they might destroy or not care about the environment. In order to protect the environment, the private sectors have to make a profit off of it, which can be done in multiple ways such as using ecotourism to make a profit.
Peter Sukstorf
3/23/2022 07:48:42 am
The private sector prioritizes profits above all else. This prioritization leads to greater profit and thus, a greater capacity to pay leadership and other employees. The government wants to tax its citizens as little as possible and provide the greatest amount of benefit that it can with this limited budget. Because of this, governments will pay their employees as little as it can, and aren't necessary concerned with having the best and brightest employees. The government can also promise greater job stability at the consequence of lower pay. NGOs can afford to pay less because they draw in employees for ethical reasons. Leave a Reply. |
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