Globalization

Globalization is a widely used term referring to the contemporary and increasing interaction of wide ranging economic and cultural processes connection people, culture, and societies throughout the globe. According to Sanabria, globalization is the flow of people, good, investments, technology, and production across national boundaries, along with the relationship between global economic interests and deforestation. While globalization has its advantages, it is a term most ill-defined because the ways in which international interaction has placed tremendous and damaging stress on the environment. One positive effect of globalization is that countries are advancing at a faster rate with the use of resources in industrialization. Also, with the increase in awareness of the damaging effects it has on the environment, new research is being constructed to create safer and “greener” technology and energy. On the other hand, globalization has led to environmental stresses such as global warming, pollution, degradation, and deforestation as a result of the over usage of natural resources to meet the increase in demand.
According to Sanabria, the South American Amazon region is home to the largest area of sub-tropical, tropical forest in the world, and the planet's leading repository of plant biodiversity. Deforestation plays a significant role in global warming and raised concerns about the potential disappearance of the Amazonian forest. In explaining how and why deforestation has occurred, Sanabria mentions the governmental encouragement of migration into underpopulated tropical and sub-tropical regions in the early 1960s. The process of shifting cultivation, where trees were cut down and burned in order to enhance soil fertility was ...

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...d education, discipline, and rules. However, we are in fact no better because before the oil drilling in the amazon, the indigenous people didn't need anything, much less care for anything such as health care. At the hands of modern civilized people, the indigenous people of the amazon have experienced a number of sufferings and oil drilling has had a great disastrous effect on the environment.
Sanabria's chapter titled, “Perspectives on Globalization” and the documentary, “Trinkets and Beads,” give two comparative views on negative effects of globalization. Within Sanabria's text, we gain secondary knowledge, whereas in the documentary we were able to visually see the damaging effects of deforestation. Although globalization has some advantages, it does negatively effect the environment and individuals living within the environment as explained within this essay.