According to the thing I read, globalization is "the process of global social, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world."
Though this thing is evidently many years old as it compares thing in 1950 and 1970 to what was in 2002, it's probably very accurate, as it mentions the global economy being to $47 trillion in that year. It also predicts that by 2010, most people in the first would will have internet, and at least half the people in the third world will have internet.
Globalization is affected by the environment, in that international trade has aided the spread of microbes. In addition to this, things like the winds, ocean currents and rivers have made the movement of pollutants in the world much more frequent.
There are things both good and bad that have happened as a result of globalization. Many people in the world have computers, but it's at the expense of more pollution in the ocean.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
My Environmental Ethics
I never took the time to think about this. I do know, that many parts of the earth are polluting the air and oceans, and being wasteful of all their resources; and sometimes, I'm one of those people. So here, I guess I need to write about how my morals connect to environmentalism.
Most of the time I focus on how much water I use. When I go to the bathroom, I always flush the toilet, but it's almost never that I wash my hands. I've never spent more than 25 minutes in the shower. When I make coffee in the morning I fill it all the way with 12 cups, but not all of it gets consumed in that day. I drink water often, but unless if I have it one of those water bottles (which I only use on camping trips), there's no real way for me to measure how much of it I consume.
I don't think any of the furniture in my house contains formaldehyde.
I've never feed canned food to my dogs. There's a farm in town that's selling organic vegetables; I might buy from them some time, and not let it go to waste.
My family has always carried groceries in plastic bags, and we just let them pile up in the house.
Most of the time I focus on how much water I use. When I go to the bathroom, I always flush the toilet, but it's almost never that I wash my hands. I've never spent more than 25 minutes in the shower. When I make coffee in the morning I fill it all the way with 12 cups, but not all of it gets consumed in that day. I drink water often, but unless if I have it one of those water bottles (which I only use on camping trips), there's no real way for me to measure how much of it I consume.
I don't think any of the furniture in my house contains formaldehyde.
I've never feed canned food to my dogs. There's a farm in town that's selling organic vegetables; I might buy from them some time, and not let it go to waste.
My family has always carried groceries in plastic bags, and we just let them pile up in the house.
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