Globalization Threat to the Environment

Global change has become a popular word in scientific debates on long-range 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 intricate linkages 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.

In a democratic society, the citizens presume the right to make laws that reflect their deepest values, yet this is no longer the case. With the emergence of the World Trade Organization (WTO), democracy has been abandoned. It no longer matters what the democratic societies want, but what the global corporations want.

Created in 1994, the WTO is already among the mo

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“The Environment, Trade, and Democracy. This caused the people to buy and eat food that are grown overseas instead of the local areas. First, free traders believe that economic growth will generate more opportunities for environmental protection, where as environmentalists focus on the increasing environmental burden caused by economic growth. (Anderson and Blackhurst 98)

Globalization has been spread worldwide ever since the age of Industrial Revolution. st powerful, reserved, undemocratic bodies on earth. The regulation of corporate excesses must be enforced, and this will not be achieved through the WTO unless someone stands up and oppose the rulings made by them. Changes in international trade patterns, markets, technologies and communication patterns affect both the economy and the environment. Thus causing and encouraging the amount of international transportation. It has been granted with vast powers, which include the right to judge whether laws of nations are impairments to trade, by WTO standards. Transport also damages the global environment. As more global corporations take over most of the aspects of farming, local resources and labors of small farmers are decreasingly vanishing.

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