CHANGE IS THE

ONLY PERMANENT
IN THIS WORLD!
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1.Identify the new challenges to human

adaptation and social change;
2. Explain the effect of global warming, climate
change and transmigration of families and
values;
3. Examine human responses to emerging
challenges in contemporary societies.
A change or the process of change by which
an organism or species becomes better suited
to its environment is called adaptation.
A)Structural adaptations are physical features of an
organism such as shape, body covering, armament; and
even the internal organization.
B) Behavioral adaptations are composed of inherited
behavior chains and/or the ability to learn.
C. Physiological adaptations permit the
organism to perform special functions like
venom (in the snakes and the like), secreting
slime, phototropism; and more general
functions such as growth and development,
temperature regulation and ionic balance.
The ability of humans to be able to rapidly adapt to
varying environment conditions and changes has
made it possible for them to survive in any regions
or places anywhere in the world. They can normally
adapt to environment changes in several ways such
as:
• Genetic change is an inherited or acquired
modification in organisms that makes them better
suited to survive and a particular environment.
• Developmental adjustments. One of the more
powerful types of adjustments to
environmental stresses is a change in growth
patterns and development.
◦Use of technology. Humans do not only interact with
their environments biologically. People invented
technological aids that allowed us to occupy new
environments without having to first evolve
biological adaptations to them.
Adaptation to Global
Warming and Climate
Change
◦ According to the United States Environment Protection Agency
(2012) defined the process of Global Warming as follows:

The earth’s climate is fueled by the sun. Most of the sun’s

energy called solar radiation, is absorbed by the earth, but
some is reflected back into the space. A natural layer of
atmospheric gases absorbs a portion of this reflected solar
radiations, eventually releasing some of it into space, but
forcing much of it back to earth. There it warms the earth’s
surface creating what is known as the natural “ greenhouse
effect”
◦Linked to this issue is the phenomenon of climate
change. The United Nations Framework Conventions
on Climate Change ( 2012) defines this as “ a
change of climate which is attributed directly or
indirectly to human activity that alters the
composition of the global atmosphere and which is
in addition to natural climate variability observed
over comparable time periods”
◦Mitigation is another term for adaptation to
climate change which is defined as
technological change and substitution that
reduces resource inputs and emissions per unit
of output.
◦ Several ways of mitigation include the following:

A.Using efficient energy generation technology.

B.Using more efficient energy end user technology
C.Replacing fossil fuels with none or low carbon emitting energy
generating technology such as renewable energy sources or
nuclear energy
D.Adopting a more sustainable natural resource management
E.Harvesting or extraction technologies and practice.
Transnational Migration
and Overseas Filipino
Workers
◦The process of geographic mobility or the
change of residence of a person from one
community to another with the intention of
settling temporarily or permanently is
migration.
 Three types of mobility or migration
1. International Migration is the permanent
transfer of residence from one country to another.
2. Internal Migration is a change in residence
within a country and refers to a change of
residence within national boundaries, such as
between states, provinces, cities, or
municipalities.
3. Circulation Migration is a
temporary movement of a person.
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION
◦These are the people who having migrated from one
nation-state to another live their lives across borders,
participating simultaneously in social relations that
embed them in more than one nation-state are called
transnational migrants.