Globalization has been defined as the process in which societies, cultures, national and regional economies have combined through global trade, communication and transportation. The recent term for globalization focuses on more broader activities such as media, culture, technology, political and environmental factors whereas before the primarily focus of globalization was thought to be the economical side of the world e.g. trade, international capital flow, direct investments etc. thus suggesting that the way we globalize today has completely changed to what we use to 50 years ago also statistics show that the global trade has grown enormously since World War 2, approximately 100 times more over the last 50 years- $95 billion (1955) to $12 trillion (2005). As I have highlighted globalization is a very important
In the first section of this essay I will talk about the negative and positive effects of globalization on our environment and how environmental policies have failed to control globalization in order to save the climate. In the second half of this essay I will talk about how globalization has strengthen industries in developing countries and the effect of this on the developing and developed countries.
We don’t tend to relate globalization with environmental factors such as global warming, globalization is more of a trade thing, wrong, globalization is not just about trade it’s about transporting the goods, producing the goods and having people in place with the appropriate skills to create the product in as much quantity needed. All of which require resources, after 150 years of industrialisation, climate change (global warming) is understandably inevitable however the problem occurs when we accelerate human activities than necessary, that’s where global warming plays