Global Change Is Very Rapid
Essay by yommmi • November 22, 2016 • Thesis • 1,675 Words (7 Pages) • 1,158 Views
Global change is very rapid, and even those trained to track and analyze it difficult to keep up with new developments. However, the trend is regularly observed and named, and these new articles become the government, academia and media, the word “ buzzword”. Such terminology is globalisation. There are various definitions of globalisation, while Robertson (1992, P8) is the first and most common form of, he said that: " Globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole...both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole in the twentieth century." And the International Monetary Fund (IMF) defines globalisation as "economy by increasing the number and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services, freer international capital flows, technology is more rapid and extensive spread of an increasingly interdependent world." Meanwhile, the International Forum on Globalisation will be defined as "the current worldwide drive by those who are not on the democratic process or national governments multinational trading companies and banking institutions dominated globalised economy." Wallerstein (2004), who is a famous critical theorists argue “globalisation can not define the capitalist world system different from the prominent role and the government alone.” Nonetheless, it is clear that globalisation has economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects that may be closely intertwined.
Nowadays, globalisation assuredly has brought people lots of benefits, national prosperity and development of all forms of fairness and justice may be that most people want to see. It is common to hear today's world economic system as a "free trade" or "globalisation." It is undeniable that our lives are increasingly influenced by forces which have transcended borders,and which, precisely because of their scope and power are changing and irreversibly, life on this planet.
However, negative effects of globalisation threat to people. From an environmental perspective, globalisation increasingly serious environmental pollution problems and from an economic point of view, it makes multinational capital flows in the international arena frequently lead to economic shocks. After that, in the economic sphere, globalisation has resulted in a wealth gap increases. So far these issues may not be very serious, but many analysts have pointed out that if you ignore these problems, they will have a huge impact on society. Thus, by drawing on the analysis of these analysts, this paper attempts to clarify the current threats to our global problems, and then consider the impact of turmoil after ignoring these issues on environment and economic, finally globalisation is presented as a potential correction.
First of all, the biggest global problem, which threatens us, is the environment. Economist Robert MacEwan(1994)presents data from the U.S. and Mexico to prove what he says: “environmental damage is bound to exacerbate the global success.” Enterprises in the process of competing, causing environmental pollution - industrial waste, excessive emissions, excessive felling of trees causes destruction of the ecological balance, which is a problem that threaten people.
In the past 30 years, 30% of the world's natural environment has been destroyed, populations of freshwater animal and plant species have been halved and natural forests have been reduced by 10%. Part of the problem in rich countries can be traced to the consumption being established climate change and ozone depletion, and the use of resources and produces toxic waste at an unsustainable rate.
If people ignore these problems, the greatest threat that people will face in the future is global warming. Researchers can say that global sea level has risen in the last century to about 19 cm. The rise has accelerated. 20th century average of about 1.7 mm per year, with an average growth rate since 1993 has nearly doubled - to about 3.2 millimeters per year. Those decades of trends sweeping the statistics, from 2007, and the last IPCC report has not changed much. The devil, of course, is in the details. A problem has been attributed, what has caused the rise seen so far. Since the 1970s, for example, it is considered a sea level rise of about 40-50% by the "thermal expansion" caused - the water just takes up more space because of the fact that it is warming, melting glaciers 35% ; 5 percent because people have groundwater extraction, use it, and into the sea, and the remaining amount is probably from the melting polar ice. The most important reason for this is tricky accounting data is uneven: the satellite measures ocean height of only return in 1993, for example, and more than 100,000 glaciers in the world, only 17 records can be traced back to the melt 30 years or more.
Of these problems will result in some islands will completely disappeared from the Earth in the future, such as Venice and the Great Barrier Reef. It also makes people live in the islands and coastal areas were forced to migrate to inland areas, leading to a new round of problems. Therefore, it is necessary to solve environmental problems. Fortunately, many people have realized the threat to people's environmental problems in the coming. Personally, people began to have a sense of environmental protection, use as few calories consumed things like cars and air conditioning. Nationally, since 1992, the leaders will discuss the various countries to reduce emissions of carbon issues and sign documents, although the effect is not obvious, it still reduces carbon emissions.
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