globalisation and the Environment

Preparation Instructions

Globalisation has become the catch word of our time to describe the increasing interconnectedness of a global society. This tutorial will explore the impacts of globalisation on sustainability drawing upon readings that investigate globalisation in developing as well as developed nations so as to provide a broad overview of the issues affecting the use and conservation of resources at the global level, as well as the stressors which hamper or promote environmental conservation.

Readings

• Globalisation and the Environment by Alan Moran (click on link at bottom of page to proceed to archived content)
• The following two links from Vandana Shiva
  • Vandana Shiva on McDonald's, Exploitation and the Global Economy
  • Global Capitalism, Local Responses - scroll down and click on "listen" if you have Real Audio or "Read" if you don't
• Optional extra reading from Bjorn Lomborg - How do we prioritize our resources?

questions for your one page summary

1. compare and contrast the views Moran and Shiva have on globalisation
2. write down what respective impacts they think globalisation is having on the environment
3. how do their ideas fit in with the debate between the catastrophists and the cornicopians that we explored in
   this weeks lecture?
4. what do YOU think are the major environmental impacts of globalisation (list 5 in order of priority)