Christoff, P. & Eckersley, R. (2013) Globalization and the Environment. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.…
The issue of changing Australia’s flag and to become a republic has once again created discussion and subsequent debate across the Australian community.…
The European Union’s commissioner on climate action and energy is looking at Canada to champion the Paris climate change agreement, as Trump’s administration decides whether or not to bail it. This article is a clear example of globalization, for not only, is this about two prominent global powers, Canada and the European Union, but this is also…
James Howard Kunstler begins his essay by quoting a well-known author and columnist, Thomas Friedman, who states that globalisation is a wonderful fixture of society, and that it is here to stay. Globalisation refers to an increased openness of national borders to the movement of trade, products, and money in the past forty years or so. Kunstler however, is strongly opposed to this point, and believes that globalisations will soon be a thing of the past. He believes that this state of Globalisation is centered on relative world peace and an abundance of reliable and cheap energy, and if one of those were taken away, globalisation would crumble. The author goes on to say how the people in power do not see this coming, even though it is clearly inevitable. He goes back through many different parts of history to show how…
Is it to late to change? Are you scared when you hear that, “death doesn't have to come sudden and hard. It can come slowly, sublimely?” (Steven). This is the way many people predict that the change in climate will affect us.…
Globalization has been one of the most hotly contested phenomena of the past two decades. It has been a primary attractor of books, articles, and heated debate, just as postmodernism was the most fashionable and debated topic of the 1980s. A wide and diverse range of social theorists have argued that today 's world is organized by accelerating globalization, which is strengthening the dominance of a world capitalist economic system, supplanting the primacy of the nation-state by transnational corporations and organizations, and eroding local cultures and traditions through a global culture. Contemporary theorists from a wide range of political and theoretical…
Security issues in the subfield of international relations are no longer limited to traditional security threats such as military challenges but are now including non-traditional security, including climate change. The international community should do more to tackle the issue of climate change because the long-term effects will not only directly or indirectly threaten national and international security but human security.…
1. George Will’s main point in “Dark Green Doomsayers” is to explain how the climate has changed over the years and what have been some of the causes of it. “Because of ‘ominous signs’ that the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down,” meteorologists were ‘almost unanimous’ that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.” “As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this…
2. Alex MacGillivray. A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of our Incredible Shrinking Planet.London: Avalon, 2006.…
“The global economy institutionalizes a global ignorance, in which producers and consumers cannot know or care about one another, and in which the histories of all products will be lost” (19).…
In this essay, I will be attempting to explain to what extent is globalisation a relatively new process in world politics. The definitions of globalisation and it's history; from which can debated if there is an actual history to globalisation or is it just a recent process in world politics. This essay will making the argument that it is not a new process but just recognised recently as such.…
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan once said that the world is becoming more and more like a “global village,” each nation part of an increasingly interconnected society that stretches across national boundaries (6). Although he was talking about the role of new media in this change, he also was probably talking about the growing economic links that come with globalization. Globalization is a process that offers both the opportunity for a better world and the risk of destroying local communities, regional cultures, and entire natural environments. Over the last century, globalization has become a major issue in politics, environmental studies, and economics, touching every corner of earth as corporations spread. But Globalization is a broad term that does not necessarily mean one single thing. It usually describes the increasing interconnectedness of economies, political institutions, and individuals as the result of communication, transportation, and goods provided by multinational corporations. As Justin Ervin and Zachary Smith define it, “Globalization can now be seen as a process that ‘shrinks’ the world as human interaction ‘thickens’” (4). The effects of globalization are neither good nor bad; there are costs and benefits as with most things in life. What is certain is that no nation on earth has not yet felt the effects of globalization.…
Global warming is a threat to humanity. As an international student from Singapore, I am alarmed about the catastrophic consequences of climate change. It is already happening in our lives. Rising sea levels caused by the melting glaciers poses a direct threat to my home. Island nations and coastal cities will suffer the inevitable if we do not act now. In six degrees, Mark Lynas warned the impending arctic tipping point, once passed, the melting of the glaciers cannot be reversed, leading to a loss of habitable environment. However, I believe that the situation is worse than what Lynas anticipated.…
If the US were to devote their resources to help everyone that is being damaged by climate change, then where does this leave us? Maybe they should use war and violence to survive and curb their population growth in light of climate change being so impactful on them. Domestically, realists know that the US is a country of climate change deniers and just wants to grow in order to sustain our growing population’s job market. They may also argue in a human nature sense claiming that the early bird gets the worm mentality; that being the first countries to industrialize and become rich can now pass the climatic urban onto the lesser countries. Liberals would argue that organizations that look to help out the poorest nations should also take climate change into account. This as causal correlation that is not menial. This something we can prevent with pooling of small amounts of resources before the fact rather than huge amounts after another calamity strikes that world’s poorest. We will soon see country ally and fight over climate change-affected resources such as water. It should be in our moral fiber using a liberal, domestic level of analysis to state that it is now our responsibility to help other live in this world of climate change we built. There is an identity perspective on this systemic problem also as many of the poorest nations feel share the same idea about the industrial west screwing them over in terms of carbon output per capita as laid out in the article. They could claim that the western and other growing industrial powers used massive amount of carbon to grow and become rich and now leave the poorer countries down and out unable to ever grow to be such a power with climate change as an…
The seriousness of global warming is evident. “In the 20th century, the world’s average surface temperature rose by… the fastest rate in any period over the last 1,000 years.” (Source A) In the ocean, the surface temperature increased nearly 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit from about 100 years ago. (Source B) It is not only people who are affected by global warming. Nowadays, “each spring, the robins are arriving in Wisconsin several days earlier than they did a decade ago” (Source F) These significant changes to the world has alarmed people and evoked efforts to stop global warming.…