English 201
January 3, 2008
Synthesis Essay Globalization and climate change The climate is changing whether it's wanted or not these events of melted polar ice caps, dramatic changes in weather; drought, warmer wetter winters and rising sea levels, also increased Co2 emissions in the atmosphere are only of few changes that have been increased by globalization. The economic pressure that is being forced is causing more harm to our living planet then some seem to know. Trying to slow the trend of globalization is highly unlikely because of economic growth and the rise of demand for goods and services. Rising underdeveloped countries that are emerging are going to have a hard time meeting the obligations of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases maintaining sustainable development, global change has become a popular word in scientific debates on a range of structural change in the earth's ecology. Globalization has in the past played a major role in the controversial environmental debates. Many problems resulted in this area of discussion, in regard to the complex relationship between globalization, government, trade and transport, and environmental decay.
The current debate on the environmental effects of globalization is particularly concerned with the question whether a worldwide liberalization of trade may provoke environmental collapse. Three major environmental concerns related to trade are the domestic environmental effects caused by the use of imported products, the foreign environmental effects caused by the production of exported goods, and the environmental effects caused by transport movements needed for international trade. The (WTO is an international organization that was created in January 1, 1995) the importing and exporting of goods is creating larger impacts on the environment, the expansion of international trade is enhancing the amount of air pollution and environmental damage. "The carbon dioxide emitted from shipping