Pollution and raw material shortages constitute immediate threats to some firms buy are often opportunities for other firms. These threats/opportunities reflect changes in which macroenvironment?

Technological

Socio-cultural

Natural

Competitive.

NATURAL

Explanation: Pollution is the release of harmful substances or materials into the environment,this can occur through households or industrial Activities. Pollution can also be defined by the presence of materials in very high amount capable of causing hazards. Pollution directly affects the Natural environment and distorts, it creates threats and reflect changes in which macroenvironment.

Natural

Explanation:

The macro-environment is the environment in the economy itself. It has an effect on how all business groups run their affaires, perform, make decisions, and form strategy . It is quite dynamic, which means that a business stay on top of its game by constantly tracking its changes. It has quite a number of external factors that the company itself doesn’t control but is certainly affected by.

The factors that make up the macro-environment are economic factors, demographic forces, technological factors, natural and physical forces, political and legal forces, and social and cultural forces.

Natural and Physucal factirs

Every business must also considers natural and physical resources. There are those that can be renewed, such as forests and agricultural products, and those that cannot, such as coal, minerals, oil, and the like. Both are strongly related to production. So, natural and physical forces can be:

Climate change

Pollution

Weather

Availability of both non-renewable and renewable resources

Laws that regulate the environment

Survival of particular biological species

These natural factors can have reglecf changes in the macro environment