ipl-logo

Threat Of Globalization

1255 Words6 Pages

The quintessential difference between the globalisation of the twentieth century and that of the twenty-first is choice. A hundred years ago, individuals and businesses could choose: to enter the global market or to focus on the local. These days there remains little choice. This manifests itself in every facet of life, from the eggs we buy to the subjects we study in school to the allocation of labour resources by businesses and corporations.
Before delving too far into this, however, globalisation itself should be defined. The Global Policy Forum described it as “both an active process of corporate expansion across borders and a structure of cross-border facilities and economic linkages that has been steadily growing and changing as the process …show more content…

From a purely economical perspective, although the best choice in 1917 may have been to buy eggs from one’s neighbour, my neighbour’s (organic, free-range) eggs are much more expensive than those available at the supermarket, which have been shipped from a faraway farm, even an overseas one. Many countries are even unable to produce sufficient staple crops to sustain their populations due to environmental conditions. For example between 50% and 80% of Namibia’s grain requirement is imported every year.34 For
1 "The Threat of G lobalization." Global Policy Forum. N.p., Winter 1999. Web. 24 Dec. 2016.
2 Muroyama, Janet H. Globalization of Tech nology: International Perspectives. Washington, DC: National Academy Pr., 1988: 3. National Academies Press. Web. 1 Jan. 2017.
3 "Namibia:Analytical summary - Food safety and nutrition - AHO." Namibia: Analytical Summary - Food Safety and Nutrition - AHO. World Health Organisation, n.d. Web. 03 Jan. 2017.
4 Let’s ignore ethical and nutritional implications of mass farming to focus on the economical question at …show more content…

In the same way that everything I know about the program to which I am applying has been found on the internet and communicated to me via email and internet telephone, there is no way to bring up a competent new generation that will further improve upon this base we have built without integrating technology into many parts of their lives where it did not exist when I was in primary school. If we chose to ignore this we would be doing our children a great disservice. They have to learn about coding and internet safety and they often choose to do their group work on Google Docs, Hangouts, Whatsapp and Skype. The technology that is integrated into their language, math, music, and other classes is done so in the hope that this technological knowhow will enable students to compete in an ever more interconnected world. Where even 20 years ago the norm was to use only paper and libraries, that choice does not exist any more. The effects on education do not end with technology, either; foreign languages have become an essential, if not t he essential, component of any top-tier school starting even from

Show More
Related

  • The Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan

    1217 Words  | 5 Pages

    Grazing and growing feed for livestock now occupy 70% of all agricultural land and 30% of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the planet. If these current events continue, meat production is predicted to double between the turn of the 21st century and 2050. Yet already, the Earth is being overpowered by livestock that consume massive quantities of energy and resources, whose wastes contaminate waterways and farmlands, and when eaten excessively, degrade our health. Pollan makes a considerable point when discussing concentrated animal feedlot operations, “The economic logic of gathering so many animals together to feed them cheap corn in CAFOs is hard to argue with; it has made meat, which used to be a special occasion in most American homes” (pg. 67, An Omnivore's Dilemma).

    Read More

  • The Omnivore's Dilemm Article Analysis

    1308 Words  | 6 Pages

    “Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.” - Wendell Berry Many people question whether or not the morality of treating animals in a humane way outweighs the morality of cheaper food for a nation where 1 in 6 people are facing hunger, and/or starving in any way. Back in the day, a while after World War II, industrial agriculture was applauded as a technological success that permitted an ever growing population to practically feed themselves. Now, many farmers and scientists see it as a blind alley, rather made for factory work.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma

    1164 Words  | 5 Pages

    Cheap food, No time! The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan introduces 3 main topics; Industrial Corn, Pastoral Grass,and Personal The Forest. In these topics Pollan portrays in depth descriptions of each. Within these sections Pollan gets creative.

    Read More

  • Dust Bowl DBQ

    748 Words  | 3 Pages

    In The Worst Hard Time, the author explains how new technology led to overproduction of many crops. A tractor was able to do the work of ten horses and a combine was able to thresh grain in one swoop. A farmer’s harvest could even go up by the thousands. As the farmers made more money they bought nearby land and ripped the grass out to make more space for more crops (Doc. C). With the overproduction of land came bare fields.

    Read More

  • Annotated Bibliography

    1037 Words  | 5 Pages

    These are the type of skills our students must develop and need to become contributing parts of our society where they will thrive on the collaboration and learning from others, with the use of technology our 21st-century learners will be able to network with all ages.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Techniques Used By Mckay Jenkins And Anna Lappe

    1576 Words  | 7 Pages

    Kalista Cook Miss Grimes College Composition II 9 February 2023 Persuasive Techniques Used by McKay Jenkins and Anna Lappe The topics of food sustainability and agricultural awareness are incredibly important. Authors McKay Jenkins and Anna Lappe bring awareness to these topics in their articles Can GMOs Be Sustainable and The Climate Crisis and the End of Our Fork. In these articles, the authors address the negative impacts of the food and agriculture industry. More specifically, they attempt to educate on the importance of creating environmentally conscious eating habits.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Novel The Omnivore's Dilemma

    336 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the novel The Omnivore's Dilemma, author Micheal Pollan talks extensively about corn. He discusses the ecological, economical, and biological effects it has on humans and our environments. Most often, he brings up the shocking statistic that twenty-five percent of all supermarket items contain corn. Pollan steers away from taking a stance on this, but the strong voice in his writing shows the reader how he feels about corn's prevalence. He, rather obviously, thinks of it as a problem.

    Read More

  • Airbnb Case Study Globalization

    1557 Words  | 7 Pages

    3. Globalization Throughout the last decades, globalization became a real phenomenon, but history tells us that it is actually not a new social, historical phenomena, but has, under different names and manifestations, been with us for a long time. It is actually not only the continuation of the liberalization of international trade, which began in the mid-19th century with the launch of cross-border trade over long distances and later with intensive large-scale mobility of labor and capital. During capitalism, globalization has amplified due to the lust for profit, which is driven by capitalists across the globe. Indeed, globalization has significantly strengthened ever since.

    Read More

  • Disadvantages Of Globalization In Russia

    904 Words  | 4 Pages

    The idea of “Globalisation” has successfully brought people and nations of the world together by the increased of non-territorial social activities, the growing speed of transportations and communications, and the rise of cross-border interconnections. Globalisation is everywhere, it is a combination of environment, culture, society, politics and economy. Economic globalisation is one of the most influential aspects to globalisation in this modern society, which introduces free trade, marketisation, liberalisation and the movement of labour. However, local and international may share different economic views, as to contrast this, two same news items on August 20th, 2014 covered by The Moscow Times (Reuters 2014) as local perspective and The Wall Street Journal (Hansergard 2014) as international perspective, are being used for the study. European markets are affected by the conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine, especially the beer industries are now further suffering low consumer spending in Russia since last year restriction on beer.

    Read More

  • Globalization Case Study: Amazon

    1105 Words  | 5 Pages

    I. INTRODUCTION a. BACKGROUND: Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different countries, a procedure compelled by international trade and investment, and supported by information technology. Furthermore, this process has an effect on various other systems such as on the environment, culture, political systems, economic development and prosperity and lastly, on human physical well-being in societies around the world. “Since 1950, for example, the volume of world trade has increased by 20 times, and from just 1997 to 1999 flows of foreign investment nearly doubled, from $468 billion to $827 billion” (York, 2016). Technology has been another primary driver of globalization,

    Read More

  • 21st Century And 20th Century Globalization

    950 Words  | 4 Pages

    “How does 21st century globalization differ from 20th century globalization?” Globalization heavily implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. It also occasionally discusses the less common dimensions of globalization, such as environmental globalization or military globalization . Those dimensions, however, receive much less attention the three described above, as academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas which are economic globalization, cultural globalization and political globalization. The evolution of globalization is still open for debate according to some scholar’s dates back to Ice Age when people used to travel in search of food, trade and security.

    Read More

  • Essay On Digital Inclusion

    1233 Words  | 5 Pages

    With this being said, if the disseminations of technologies such as computers and the Internet occurs evenly and are utilized to its highest potential, they are perceived as prevalent tools which are capable of boosting the acquisition of knowledge or skills among marginalized students whilst catering greater access to a broader information society (Cummins & Sayers, 1995). As opposed to that, concerns revolving around the inequality of access to modern technologies both at school and at home plagued many, as these inequalities might result in the increase of educational and social stratification, thereby generating a new form

    Read More

  • Ethical Issues In International Business

    730 Words  | 3 Pages

    Introduction Globalization is a fact of Economic Life – Carlos Salinas De Gortari. Globalization is not a new thought. This process of interaction and integration among the companies, people and government of different countries is happening from ages. Technology has been the major driver of globalization. Economic life has been transformed dramatically by the advances in information technology.

    Read More

  • Essay On Causes Of Globalisation

    2111 Words  | 9 Pages

    Introduction Globalisation is the process that brings together the complaints nations of the world under a unique global village that takes different social & economic cultures in to consideration. First this essay will analyse globalisation in a broader term, second the history and foundation of globalisation that were intended to address poverty and inequality, third the causes that lead to globalisation and the impact that globalisation has on the world’s economy. The participation in the global economy was to solve economic problem such as poverty and inequality between the developed and developing nations. What is Globalisation?

    Read More

  • Reflection On Globalization

    731 Words  | 3 Pages

    The aim of this assessment is to reflect on what I have learned this semester regarding the module of Business in Global Context; from the lectures with the professor, the case studies done in class and the three previous patchworks that we worked on. We have learned that there are different internal and external components that affect the business environment, from corporate social responsibility to cultural and institutional framework; organizations must take into consideration all the factors related to the different parts of its environment. For the topic discussion, I will be discussing globalization and how it has affected the global business environment along with the key aspects and the different point of views regarding it.

    Read More

More about Threat Of Globalization

Open Document