Some anti- globalization movements, associate globalization with threats to the environment. They argue that the demanding problem of globalization is formed by environmental decay caused by the rise in international transportation. The rise in international transportation could be partly blamed on the transport of globalized food. As more global corporations take over most of the aspects of farming, local resources and labors of small farmers are decreasingly vanishing. This caused the people to buy and eat food that are grown overseas instead of the local areas. Thus causing and encouraging the amount of international transportation.
On the other hand, some experts are making a good point,they argue that globalization has its costs, but it also has its benefits, and among those is an international trade framework that can be used to enforce emission reductions. This framework is designed to create a level playing field. If some country subsidizes its firms, there is not a level playing field, which is why subsidies are proscribed. In most developed countries today, firms are paying the cost of pollution to the global environment, in the form of taxes imposed on coal, oil and gas
I think there are several cases of companies that have exceeded its limits to environmental pollution... for example, the Monsanto's case presented in the documentary The Company, which shows a huge damage to cows and to the ground...
ResponderEliminarSorry, the documentary calls The Corporation, not the Company...
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