The world as a Polder

Deana R.

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Globalization is a two-sided coin. It seems that for every problem it solves, it creates a new one. On the other hand, for many of the problems it creates, it can enable a solution. To call globalization a positive force for the environment because it can fix the problems that globalization itself created or exacerbated would be too generous, but I do believe that the empowerment that globalization brings will ultimately prove to be the key to getting the Earth out of the mess it's in today.

According to Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, "Globalization means nothing more than improved worldwide communications, which can convey many things in either direction; globalization is not restricted to good things carried only from the First to the Third World [p. 517]."

Introduction
Population explosion in Rwanda
Exports to China
The exportation of American values
Dangerous mistakes
China's place in world trade
China before Renaissance
Conclusion

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[...] I believe that educating people and spreading awareness about the increasingly dire state our world is in are the keys to solving the environmental crisis; although the exportation of Western ideas has earned us a lot of hatred worldwide, in this case, it may help to spread the word about environmentalism to places that wouldn't hear it otherwise. My favorite part of Diamond's book was his anecdote about the Netherlands. Lying below sea level, constantly in danger of flooding, the Netherlands was made to learn before the rest of the First World to respect the environment and to work with other people to maintain it. [...]

[...] The world as a Polder Globalization is a two-sided coin. It seems that for every problem it solves, it creates a new one. On the other hand, for many of the problems it creates, it can enable a solution. To call globalization a positive force for the environment because it can fix the problems that globalization itself created or exacerbated would be too generous, but I do believe that the empowerment that globalization brings will ultimately prove to be the key to getting the Earth out of the mess it's in today. [...]

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