The government. Because they borrow huge amounts of money and fail to pay it back putting the country in huge debt.
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lindamuhia
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Gabriel MacTavish
The banks didn’t do their job because they didn’t credit check ( see if people could pay the loans back) before they gave them out.
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Huang Yu Lin (Alan)
Banks lent money to people who couldn’t pay it back.
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Mikhail Nikolaychuk
The banks were giving the money to the people some of whom could never have paid the debts back to the lenders.
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Alexander Wou
Banks are responsible because they were giving out Sub-Prime Mortgages and were loaning money to people who couldn’t pay it back
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ziluezheng
the bank is to be blamed for the crisis, as they lend money to people who has poor credit. this sub-prime lending cause the crisis.
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ziluezheng
peter chen
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victoriayang
The banks that lent the money – they were too risky, agreeing to let people borrow money that they couldn’t pay off.
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Paul
The banks let people borrow money that was nonexistent. Additionally, the interest rate was very low (enticing people to borrow more).
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Nicholas Everett
Banks – Credit Default Swaps – Bear Stearns. Initial catalyst
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Michael Worthington
Governments are responsible because they put themselves in that situation – if you’re borrowing you need to be able to pay back somehow
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admin
Banks are responsible because they neglected to properly screen those who applied for loans. They gave them out to anyone and everyone.
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Rachel Lee
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AshleyKristen
Climate Change- global warming
Land Degration- land pollution
Unemployment- inflation of prices
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Debbie
Oil Spills pollutes environment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/enbridge-s-kalamazoo-cleanup-dredges-up-3-year-old-oil-spill-1.1327268 -
Jiacheng Shen
Too much food that contain poisonous elements that can be legally sold in China which will largely affect human health.
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Jingyi Li
Environment :air pollution-PM2.5 Social:…
Environment :air pollution-PM2.5 Social:unempolyment
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alexischow
animal testing
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andreaho
Climate change (global warming) – caused by the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere
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Curtis Zhao
Issues: Increase in global waste, depletion of the icecaps, abuse in drugs and alcohol.
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Maddie Ladner
Environmental: Increase of carbon dioxide due to more vehicles & factories
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Taylor Tam
urbanization, expanding in to new environment as population grows
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Jonathan Gugger
Economic injustice is a growing social issue. Movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street express these concerns.
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Krista Wilson
depletion of the arctic which is home to fewer and fewer animals from the increase of Co2 emissions resulting in melting the arctic ice caps
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Changchun Dai
People are using illegal cooking oil in China to make money.It is much cheaper than regular cooking oil,
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rhiannonwademan
Increasing rates of Obesity, due to the fact of synthetic chemicals in our food and high prices for healthier foods.
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Matt Gwin
Income distribution (1% vs. 99%); caused by personal enrichment in the 1% as opposed to the use of capital for overall economic growth
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Matt Gwin
Jennie Yan
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Huijia Yang
Unemployment; food safety,juvenile delinquency; air/water/noise pollution;
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Huijia Yang
@Yan Gao
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Megan Chan
Overpopulation is a current social issue, caused by relaxed immigration laws, lack of contraception and poor women’s education.
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Eric Cho
Environmental – Unsustainable resource use (caused by western lifestyle)
Social – Poverty (caused by resources being inflated – can’t afford -
Huang Yu Lin (Alan)
Income inequality due to gender or ethnicity. Possibly caused by employer preference.
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