How does globalization affect the environnment?

Question

How does globalization affect the environnment?

Answer 1

Don't listen to the know-it-all jerk above.  His answer to your thoughtful question is vague and baseless.

Globalization can effect our environment by depleting our natural resources and energy sources that are not renewable, such as coal and oil.  

Pollution is a large concern as developing nations begin to increase their demand for energy.  The production of energy generally produces pollution.  These developing nations will also increase their demand for automobiles, like in China which has a population of over 1 billion people.  

Added to that, it is crucial that as the economies of developing nations grow, proper government regulations are put in place in order to limit the amount of pollution their industries create.

Answer 2

you should use "effect" rather than "affect"

your question is a little vague. I guess I'll say that globalization effects the environment because it negates the effects of evolution. In order for a species to evolve, a certain population of that species must be isolated from the rest of the species and allowed to adapt to an environment independently. This is now impossible.

Answer 3

Good question.

Globalisation,  or the increasingly rapid flow of people, capital,information and culture around the world, has resulted in a massive increase in the production of commodities as capital has moved to where labour, and other costs of production,  are cheapest.

This has also created  a higher rate of consumption in the most recently industrialised countries, especially in Asia, especially China.

This escalation in the rate of production has depended on  a parallel increases in the use of fossil fuels,and  thus the escalating increase in carbon emissions.

As cars are one of these key commodties  it is also the consumption as well as the production of commodities that has contributed to the escalating  production of carbon emissions.

It is not only those countries which produce the commodities, but all the countries in the production cycle, who are responsible for polluting the environment.

It is those who:  

     -provide the primary resources, the fossil fuels,    

     -produce the goods and

     -consume the commodities  

Both the developed and the newly developed countries are responsible. Playing the blame game  will lead us nowhere. .  

The cause is global, the problem is global, the responsibility is global