PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Contemporary Global Concerns — I
Narrate the various ways in which rapid environmental
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
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Body flow
R1 security widened beyond the military → protection of resources + survival of populations — Buzan: environment now on the security agenda R2 degradation as a transnational, non-traditional threat → several connected pathways to human insecurity
Counter-view
resource conflict (water/diamonds/oil) in scarcity → Homer-Dixon: supply/demand /structural scarcity → resource capture + ecological marginalisation — weakened states — insurgency + communal violence → threats to food/energy/economic security — livelihood loss — climate-induced migration + displacement — strain on borders + stability
Conclusion routes
the burden falls unevenly → Buzan/Copenhagen securitisation (existential framing, extraordinary responses) — Beck's Risk Society: manufactured risks contested + unequally distributed — Global South disempowered — Maldives: existential threat, little voice R1 environmental insecurity inseparable from injustice + inequality — a transnational threat demands cooperation — SDGs as a blueprint for resilience R2 Beck: shift from short-term national interest to long-term planetary ethics
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
