Tuesday, February 19, 2008,
GlobalisationGlobalisation, the process by which peple, their ideas and their activities in different parts of the world become interconnected or intergrated. At a first glance, it might see like a good thing, interconnecting or intergrated ideas and activities worldwide. I feel that globalisation cannot be avoided, as the key driving forces are always around in most countries, such as transportation, communications and trasnational corporations. These factors have increased rapidly, due to technology and helps mankind's tasks to be done easier, such as in transportation, people uses carts, small boats and sedans which carry only a few goods or people, but now we use motor vehicles, large cargoships to transport goods and even travel by air-aeroplanes and helicopters.
Due to globalisation, there is a higher standard of living in many countries, but to what extent? The poorer people in all countries are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer, widening the gap between social classes. Globalisation increases the rate of productivity in industrail areas, lessen the time taken for transportation and communications, but this also mean that raw materials such as coal and crude oil will be depleted rapidly and deforestation to make space for industries, would result in many environmental negative impacts such as soil erosion and loss of flora and fauna. Furthermore, globalisation also would cause global warming, and even though people would gain more awareness of foreign culture, they might lose their local culture as more and more forgeign shops such as McDonlad branches worldwide. Weighning both postive and negative impacts, I feel that globalisation would do our planet and us more harm in the future, as global warming have reached a rapid rate now, what would Earth be in the future? Yes, economices worldwide are growing rapidly, but the economies might crash in the future, which can be rebuilt, but our planet's natural resources and the damage caused by us is irreversible.Labels: Thoughts on Globalisation
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