According to Chandra (2007), there are both pros and cons of
globalization. The con lies in the fact that it indirectly accelerates the
disintegration of our environment via driving intake of resources due to
increase in transactions of goods and services. Increased usage of raw
materials like oil and minerals for production and razing of natural habitats
for growing crops cause pollution and global warming. They in turn result in
more floods and acid rain occurring around the world. However, the pro of globalization is that it has brought about a smaller interrelated world and
the increase in availability of information to the masses means that there is
more recognition about the need to resolve the global environmental problems.
This can lead to more collaboration between nations to tackle these problems
like in the case of the Montreal Protocol and translate into political support
for the governments to vest more authority in the United Nations to resolve
cross-borders environmental issues.
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