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How has the various topics and events over the semester impacted the…

- - - - Restrictions to tax havens
        
        Less criminal activity
        
        More secrecy with criminal activity
        
        Finding new loophole to work around economy
        
        Corporation profits decrease
      - No follow-up on this issue
        
        Continue to use loopholes both for good and bad
    - - riots from the injustices of common people
    - - lack of public action due to insufficient funding
      - propaganda from large banks and companies
      - Slower economic growth (tax money not being used to fund development)
    - - Money laundering
        
        less infrastructure and money for programs
        
        Poverty in poor areas
        
        more people resorting to crime to survive
        
        increased crime
        
        increased funds for large gangs & syndicates
        
        more resources and power for potential criminals
      - Corruption
        
        corrupted elected officials
        
        motive for using money illegally
      - Misdemeanor crimes
  - - - "expose" the illegal usage of tax havens and criminal activity
        
        profit
        
        wants the system to change
    - - not making tax havens illegal and supporting the secret actions of the "ultra-rich"
      - cannot change the trades and way the world works because it may cause an economic collapse or recession
    - - indirectly supporting these tax havens
      - may think they have no power, especially in countries with no freedom of speech against people in power
    - - against the law, working around the existing rules
      - international investment in illegal trades
        
        could be easier than abiding by the government
        
        may be stuck in illegal activity or permanently burdened by it (criminal record, changing identity and nationality, larger people going after them)
  - - - more strikes and riots
- - - - common people looking for cheap alternatives to traditional airlines
      - newer = more efficient = cheaper
  - - - Scrapping or re-investment of cruise ships
- - - - Stimulus
        
        paying people to not work
      - recession
        
        lack of resources
        
        less jobs and less income for households
        
        more demand for essential workers
        
        perpetuating shortages and slowing of economy
        
        lower production and distribution of resources
        
        more death
        
        industries go idle or out of business
        
        reduced supply chains
        
        high cost of living
        
        depression :frowning_face:
    - - Incentivizes people to buy now rather than later
        
        increased demand through inflation
    - - Vertical integration of countries (push for self-sufficiency)
        
        prices of goods may increase or decrease depending on circumstance
        
        less supply or high demand
        
        creates job opportunities
        
        economic expansion
  - - - good position for negotiation
        
        paid more for overtime
    - - Longer wait times for their good
      - Spend more for goods
    - - bad position, need to spend more to send their goods out
      - Not receiving supplies could increase the price and decrease demand
        
        Shipping delays could cascade into a recession if people stop buying online
    - - manufacturers or suppliers refusing to produce or ship due to cost
      - cannot do financial planning
        due to inconsistent supply chains
    - - increase economic stimulus in the form of sales taxes & tariffs
      - want to obtain raw materials and supplies that are inaccessible domestically to benefit the economy
      - want more moving of goods out of ports
- - - - Developing countries depend on non-renewable energy sources like coal in order to grow their economy
        
        necessity for developed country to "do more" to balance out CO2 emissions
      - Wind energy will become cheaper than fossil fuels in the future due to renewability
    - - Corporations
        
        Use given resources or resources in demand, such as plastics, for optimum profit while being cost efficient
      - Citizens
        
        Want low prices for living
        
        expensive living with inflation
        
        more natural disasters and supply chain shortages increasing prices
        
        want to save money for future
      - Government
        
        Want to continue the economy with dependency to pre-existing energy sources and resources available
      - Politicians
        
        Want to be elected through support in trends and also maintain the status quo or better the economy: may want to go carbon neutral as the news and common people are demanding it
    - - Rising global temperature
        
        Arctic ice melting
        
        Rising Sea Levels
        
        Flooding in coastal cities and land
        
        relocation of people funded by the government
        
        Rising ocean temperatures
        
        endangered wildlife
        
        ruination of aquatic ecosystem
        
        risk of Earth's ecosystem collapsing
        
        More natural disasters
        
        government funding for relocation and repair
        
        loss of money
      - Forest Fires
        
        Burning of trees
        
        Tonnes of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere
        
        Loss of wildlife in forests
        
        Burning of towns
      - Relocation and Repair
  - - - Oil Companies
        
        Want to drill in the Arctic Circle for oil
        
        they want profit to expand operations further
      - Government
        
        want resurrection and preservation of wildlife for tourist attractions
        
        profit in the tourism industry
        
        want to restore balance to the ecological changes that have been occurring due to climate change
      - Scientists
        
        in search of more scientific knowledge in order to improve the world
        
        looking to better understand the relationship between wildlife and their effect on the environment
        
        also want to preserve wildlife and not have a mass extinction of species that may disrupt the equilibrium of the global ecosystem
      - Civilians
        
        Food / Fur (Limited)
- - - - Infrastructure is important for faster economic growth and alleviation of poverty in the country
      - The cost for 31,251 stations (2-8 ports each) would cost roughly $7.8 billion dollars ($250,000 each)
        
        not enough income from consumers of EV's
        
        Joe Biden plans to give an $15 billion investment to build 500,000 charging stations.
    - - Want a method of transportation with the best range, price, durability
      - prefer to spend the least time to charge or fill their car to full
        
        Hybrid electric vehicles may serve as a bridge into fully electric for consumers and infrastructure.
      - Incentive to switch to an electric vehicle for tax credit
    - - Want consumers to purchase their cars with specific ports or features in order to expand their business
      - Using resources available to them
        
        Incentive to switch to EVs for tax credit
      - Don't like spending money unnecessarily
  - - - electric vehicles drain more in cold weather
        
        an electric vehicle during the winter will hold less range
        
        inability to drive electric vehicles in cold climate
- - - - Would like to keep the new waterway under Canadian control to encourage settlement in the north, and also improve Canada's GDP
    - - a new waterway would open up trade from the east coast of north America and Mexico to Greenland, Iceland, the UK, and most of the coastal European countries.
      - a position of control over a very efficient passage is really good for them
    - - Would like for the waterway to stay under Canadian control as to become too expensive of an option for some of their current passengers through the other canals of the world
        
        worried about Canada putting themselves into a power position due to climate change
    - - would like to ideally be able to go through northern Canada for free, or at least legislate against price gouging via the UN or G7 summit
  - - - as long as there are enough resources to sustain a population up north, there will be people willing to settle up there. any possible settlers could also improve the trade relationships between Canada and Russia, as they would eb the closest country to the new population
    - - as long as they continue to severely limit traffic through the arctic canal, they can avoid the designation as an international waterway
    - - if the stimulus can offset collapse of other industries like farming and fishing, then yes, although such a situation is unlikely
- - - - Ethical Component
        
        suffering of animals, unethical housing