Globalization has been rapidly increasing throughout countries over the years, and it has brought a lot of change around the world. Globalization has impacted almost every aspect of modern life, John Green highlights how globalization has provided a benefit to individual economies around the world by making different markets more efficient, increasing competition, limiting military conflicts, which leads to the spread of wealth more equally around the world. But also there are some negative factors to Globalization such as climate change.
Globalization is defined as to how international strategies aim to expand businesses around the world, through different meaning of communications due to technological advancements, political developments and environmental developments. John Green says that economies have grown as a result of globalization and the reason for that is because globalization allows a company in one country to now sell its products in another country halfway around the world. Also that company can build stores and factories in another country and invest in commodities and contribute to the economy. This is important because it allows both the company and the economy of the other country to benefit from each other. Also because of globalization, it allows people to relocate to wealthier countries and start their own business or find work, and this allows people to make a higher income and may lead to more opportunities in life.
Globalization also has negative effects on the world and one of the largest negative effects is climate change. Climate change is part of the larger problem due to the rapid expansion of globalization. Some of the aspects of climate change that John Green highlights are, ocean acidity rising, freshwater resources depleting emissions due to fossil fuels, and deforestation. These are all problems that can be solved, but will globalization increasing more rapidly, it is hard to stop these negative effects.
The UK is a more economically developed country than many of the countries that will be affected by climate change, such as Bangladesh. It is better placed to afford some of the large-scale engineering solutions, such as such as sea walls and river barriers that these countries cannot afford. The Thames Barrier was built following a tidal surge in 1953 caused by a combination of a high tide and unusually strong winds pushing water towards the land. The Barrier was not intended to protect against sea-level rises caused by climate change, but it will be used for this purpose during the early part of the twenty-first century. Towards the end of the century more substantial defenses will be necessary, if London and the surrounding area are to be protected.
One of the problems faced by those responsible for planning future sea defenses is scientific uncertainty. While it is clear that climate change will lead to sea level rises, the exact extent to which this will happen is not clear. The Environment Agency has estimated that by the year 2100 the best case scenario for the Thames Estuary is a sea level rise of about a metre, whereas the worst case scenario is an increase in sea level of 4.2 metres.
Due to the rapid expansion of globalization, the world will be changing in many different ways, some can be seen as increasing wealth due to economies growing by gaining more trade, the increase in competition for goods, and the limiting of violent conflicts. But on the other hand there is also the negative aspects of globalization which is predominantly categorized as climate change.
