Global Resource and Socio Economic Change: A Call for Social Workers Professional Intervention

Abstract

Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may  include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations. Sustained at a larger scale, it may lead to social transformation or societal transformation. Via anthropogenic social 
change, extraction of the earth’s natural resources tripled in the past five decades, related to the massive build-up of infrastructure in many parts of the world and the high levels of material consumption, especially in upper-middle and high-income countries. Material extraction is expected to rise by 60 per cent by 2060 and could derail efforts to achieve not only global climate, biodiversity, and pollution targets but  also economic prosperity and human well-being. Thus, the need for this study to upheap urgency actions for, sweeping policy changes to bring humanity to live within its means and reduce this projected growth in socio-economic changes and resource use by one third, while growing the economy, improving well-being, and minimizing environmental impacts.