The Importance Of Economic Globalization

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Diamond described the world as a “Polder” (15), economic globalization connects the whole earth together. Some people believe the economic globalization will make the environment worse because during the development of the economy an abundance of pollution will endanger our environment. However, others believe the economic globalization will help our environment flourish and become better because it would help stimulate the growth of the economy. And allow the development of technology and create more devices to help make our environment better Human’s effectiveness is like void. It can not only make our environment worse but the pollution could damage the new devices that we created to make our environment better again. Humans are the paradox. …show more content…

The amount of trash that we don’t dispose of properly can pollute our rivers and ocean and lastly the automobile exhaust will bring nothing but regret to our environment. However, one thing that people cannot ignore is that with the development of the economy, the countries will increment their GDP (what is GDP? What does it mean?). According to the research if a countries’ average DGP exceed $1000, civilian will begin to notice the environmental problems around them, they will become worried about being able to live. Then they will seek for better placed to live and a higher quality of life and that is a problem. For example during the industrial revolution The United State was still developing and the average GDP was very low. But there was very little pollution back then. In 1952, pollutants from factories and home fireplaces mixed with air and killed at least 4,000 people in London over the course of several days. A few years earlier, in 1948, rigorous industrial air pollution endangered 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, and made 7,000 more sick. The environment transformed dramatically, unlike the past that the sky is always dark, today’s American is sunny every day. Both the development of economy and technology make the environment to become

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