Globalization and the Environmental Impact Concerning the Lesser Developed Countries.
The word globalization itself is often hard to define. This is because of the many love-hate relationships that the term "globalization" carries. To some it could mean a world of inevitable and irreversible good , while others believe that it is indestructible and devote their entire lives to either halting or changing the process. Globalization is a complicated process that involves the integration of every nation and, therefore, controls the dealing that goes on inside that system. This process has been under way for the past several hundred years and today's new forms of communication and transportation have, in their part, greatly speeded up the process. Borders are slowly becoming eradicated and the world is becoming linked through trade and investments. As many see it, Global Modernity is a Westernized system where First World countries are, in the most part, taking advantage of the less powerful nations and using there people and resources as needed. But what about sustainable growth? Because of globalization, the worlds environment has taken a seriously negative impact. The most important environmental crises is the direct result of the expansion and intensification of the capitalist governments, especially the escalating trans-national corporations and the Americanization of almost every nation-state. Due to the economic power of some European and Western governments, other poorer and overly populated nations are not receiving any gain in the globalization process, and it is poverty that is among the greatest environmental threats in the world. Globalization, as seen by many, is a negative process that has an increasingly detrimental impact on the worlds environment. (Harris, Seid; 2000: 2-3, 164-165).
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The impact on the environment due to the Globalization process did not start on its own.