The Role of Globalization in the Destruction of the Environment

This report will discuss the role of globalization in providing and

transfer new and advanced technologies which, despite their

importance, can be damaging to the environment.

The report will be covering elements such as what we mean by

globalization as a phenomenon of changes? What technologies mean? What

are the factors of globalization that supported it and what are the

features of it.

What is Globalization?

There are various definitions of "Globalization", and the effect it

has on the world. Globalization can be defined as a phenomenon of

major changes in the conventional world. These changes include many

atmospheres such as the economic, cultural, political and technical

ones, in addition to a major change in the personal aspect of our

life. These changes leading to unified impacts all over the world.

Driven by many factors such as economic and technology and shaped by

governments and institutions rules and regulation, globalization is an

expansion beyond nations and geographical borders.

Main aspects revolutionized the globalization and speed it up. The

majors are the developments of transportation, telecommunication and

industrialized advancements.

Globalization started to be felt directly after the WWII when

transportation and telecommunications advanced rapidly to what it is

today. This helped to reduce the cost of an facilitate transport of

goods, services, means of production, technologies as well as people

(researchers, student, and experts) between the different countries

and regions. Together with this, Information and computer technology

developed in parallel to transportation and all those together led to

the world becoming a smaller place.

One might think that smaller place is good, and actually it is, if not

for the disadvantages of globalization. I will not say that I am

against globalization, I am not. I do believe that globalization

together with the development of technologies is very important for

human welfare, but I feel that the misuse of those technologies and

the fact that policy making is in the hands of elite countries

(capitalists and developed countries), together with the fact that