Globalization and the Environment Essay -- Environmental Ecology Pollu

Economy is not a fall apart thing from production, consumption and exchange. Economics pays no attention to goods and services provided by nature, air, water, soil and sunlight that produce everything we need for survival and all the wealthiness we be able to accumulate. What is the cost of world(a)ization to the environment? Does globalization endure the same goals for a healthy planet and justice for people? herds grass Taylor writes, Moreover, large multinational companies typically do not perceive it to be in their self-interest to seek out locations where they can pollute more or less heavily. He goes on to explain that these companies have a design in place with pollution-control that meets the standards of countries with strict environmental laws. He thinks that globalization is helping to mitigate standards in low-income countries of environment and labor rather than to hinder them. Also, that globalization makes the knowledge base a more peaceful place because of the connections between people that are created.The 200 largest companies in the world employ less than 1% of the global workforce, but they control more than of the worlds wealth, write Suzuki and Dressel. The bigger companies are operating globally without interference and using up the inhering resources with cheap labor overseas. Corporations are no longer connected to the local anesthetic economies but to international laws that have been set up to their advantage. The wealth that one time was distributed to the good of public welfare is now being rerouted to the corporations through their tenseness on policies of government. The current system is allowing corporations to make the rules of global economic activity. gibe to John Cavanaugh, author of Global Dreams Not only are these corpor... ...ebody comes up with a viable solution? The world is becoming smaller and smaller every day and perhaps the History books of the future will belief at this time and wonder how we cou ld have been so ignorant as to let the world die.Works CitedBright, Christopher, (2001), Biological adversity the hidden cost of Trade and economic globalization, Harvard International Review, overwinter 2001, pp 24-27.Grennes, Thomas, (2003), Creative Destruction and Globalization, Cato Journal, Winter 2003, pp.543-558Newcomb, W. W. (1961) The Coahuiltecans South Texas, the Indians of Texas From Prehistoric to Modern Times, Austin, TX UT Press, 1961Suzuki, D., & Dressel, H., (1999), From naked ape to superspecies. Toronto, Canada Stoddard create Co., Limited Taylor, Timothy (2002), The truth about globalization, Public Interest, Spring 2002, pp. 24-44.