Populações inteiras, nas cidades e na zona rural, dispõem da parafernália digital global como fonte de educação e de formação cultural. Essa simultaneidade de cultura e informação eletrônica com as formas tradicionais e orais é um desafio que necessita ser discutido. A exposição, via mídia eletrônica, com estilos e valores culturais de outras sociedades, pode inspirar apreço, mas também distorções e ressentimentos. Tanto quanto há necessidade de uma cultura tradicional de posse da educação letrada, também é necessário criar estratégias de alfabetização eletrônica, que passam a ser o grande canal de informação das culturas segmentadas no interior dos grandes centros urbanos e das zonas rurais. Um novo modelo de educação.

BRIGAGÃO, C. E.; RODRIGUES, G. A globalização a olho nu: o mundo conectado. São
Paulo: Moderna, 1998 (adaptado).

Com base no texto e considerando os impactos culturais da difusão das tecnologias de informação no marco da globalização, depreende-se que

(UFSM) Reducing climate change is good for your health

⁷More ‘climate-friendly’ investments in transport, energy and housing could help prevent significant noncommunicable disease, WHO review finds

 Washington, D.C., 14 June 2011 (PAHO/WHO) – ⁶Greener investments in transport, housing and household energy policies can help prevent significant cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease, obesity-related conditions and cancers.

 These are among the findings of ¹⁰a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically, for the first time ever, at the health ‘co-benefits’ of investments in climate change mitigation reviewed by the lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

 Overall, ⁴sustainable development policies in housing, transport, and household energy may benefit health right away – even if the broader climate gains are realized over years or decades.

 ⁵“Some climate change mitigation measures yield broader health gains than others,” says Dr Maria Neira, director of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. “Potential health benefits – as well as certain risks – should be considered more systematically in climate assessments. And if that is done, we can identify strategies that are truly win-win.”

 ²Many forms of asthma and allergies, as well as heart disease and strokes related to increasingly intense heat waves and cold spells could be addressed by more climate-friendly housing measures, the report finds.

 As ⁸other examples of ‘best buys’ for health, initial findings from reviews of other sectors identify considerable evidence that:

 — ¹Investments in, and use of, safe walking/cycling and public transport networks are strongly associated with more healthy physical activity, lower rates of premature mortality, and less obesity. However, the last IPCC report focuses on better fuels and engines as mitigation measures, giving little attention to the much wider benefits offered by policies that favour walking, cycling and public transport. This neglects the broader range of health and social benefits that can be derived from adopting more sustainable transport.

— ³Deaths of more than 1 million people annually from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to indoor air pollution from traditional biomass and coal-fired stoves are largely avoidable with more energy efficient stoves. An estimated 15% of this burden in Latin American and Sub-Saharan African could potentially be averted in less than a decade if more advanced biomass or biogas stoves were introduced at a pace compatible with UN targets for achieving universal access to modern energy services by the year 2030.

 “This series explains why green housing and home energy, transport, and urban environments can improve our health – and why the health sector can prevent much disease, at very little cost, by advocating for healthier investments in some key sectors,” says WHO’s Dr Carlos Dora, an epidemiologist and coordinator of the series.

 As much as ¹¹80% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries, where urban growth is driving rapid slum expansion, soaring traffic volumes, air and water pollution and rates of traffic injury.

 “⁹People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment,” Dora observes. “So we, as health professionals, need to promote basic environmental measures that cost the health sector very little, and can avoid many subsequent years of treatment. And these health savings can be captured immediately – while the climate benefits accumulate for the future.”

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Fonte: Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 jul. 2012. 

Considere os trechos a seguir.

I. “People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment” (ref. 9).

II. “a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically” (ref. 10).

III. “80% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries” (ref. 11).

 Os segmentos sublinhados em I, II e III apresentam ideia de, respectivamente,

Os anos de 1945 a 1960 foram marcados pela explosão do sentimento nacional nas dezenas de países da Ásia, da África e do Oriente Médio. É na modificação das relações de força no seio de cada colônia ou em cada grupo de colônias que se devem procurar as causas do enfraquecimento do velho sistema de dominação. Nenhum movimento de libertação nacional podia esperar a vitória se não contasse com o apoio total de sua população.

SERRANO, C; MUNANGA, K. Arevolta dos colonizados.São Paulo: Atual, 1995 (adaptado).

De acordo com o excerto, esses movimentos de independência conjugavam o (a)

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