Ouestions for "The Double Edge Of Globalisation"

1. Is globalization a recent phenomenon or it had already started long in the past?
   Ans:A major change between past globalization and its present state is the visibility of the connections. In today's hyper connected world, the backlash can rise and proliferate faster than in the past.

2. Is it true that globalization results in more deforestation or it is due to increase in consumption
 Ans:It is both.By encouraging trade, globalization encourages consumption, which leads to more logging worldwide.

3.How has international consumer habits driven environmental devastation? 
Ans: Greenpeace also claims that there is "a 7,000 km chain that starts with the clearing of virgin forest by farmers and leads directly to chicken nuggets being sold in British and European fast food restaurants" and labels the British import of soy animal feed from Brazil as tantamount to "forest crime," according to an article in the Guardian. 

4.Why are key countries (e.g the United States) unwilling and/ or unable to play a part in easing globalization’s effects?
Ans: The root cause is the unwillingness or inability of key actors on the global scene and their constituencies to empower the UN to a level that corresponds with tomorrow's global realities and possibilities.

5.How can media help to stop globalization?

Ans: "The instantaneous transmission of news and images has turned the thoroughly connected and even marginally connected citizens of the world into spectators and consumers of ideas and information."There are even signs that as a result of economic growth, urbanization and enlightened public policies born of global awareness, more nations are reversing the longstanding trend toward destruction of their forests."