Is environmetal degradation an inevitable consequence of globalisation

Insofar as it is possible for businesses to opperate with an
acceptable impact upon the environment, globalization need not have a
detrimental impact on the environment.  With that in mind, companies
exist to make money, and are certainly not above exploiting
differences in environmental policy in the countries in which they
operate.  Thus, while theoretically possible, it is currently rare for
globalization to be beneficial to the environment.

There is an entire website dedicated to globalization and the
environment being developed at (
http://www.unep.org/unep/program/global/home.htm ).  However, only
parts of it are currently completed, though the site provides some
links to background material until it's done.

About.com has a brief introduction to a short list of good links on
the subject of globalization and the environment:
http://globalization.about.com/library/weekly/aa051402a.htm

The Globalist ( http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/Community.aspx?FeatureId=7
), and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/Resources/globalization/globalenv.html )
also have some good resources for more in-depth research.

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Hi Sinnie,

I think the main issue is: is globalization is happening at the same
pace in every relevant sector. At the moment it is only happening in
economics. The necessary adjustments in politics are not being done
because the bodies that could create and oversee the relevant policies
are not in place yet. This is the main reason globalization can be
such a bad thing at the moment. It's probably best to compare it to
the time of industrialization in Europe. A similar thing is the
current globalization: nearly unchecked economic exploitation of a new
concept. Politics and other factors have to slowly catch up to keep
everything in check now and make globalization a success.

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