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Explain globalization. How has technology contributed in promoting globalization?

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Explain the meaning of 'global commons'. How are environmental concerns becoming important in global politics?

 

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Globalization is the process where the economics of various countries in the world become more and more connected to one another. In a globalized economy, people from one country can buy goods quite easily from other countries. Now-a-days, people in one country can even buy services from other countries (because of the internet a company can have accountants in India, for example, do its taxes).

Technology has played an important role in the contribution to Globalization.

(i) The invention of the telegraph, the telephone, mobiles, television, internet, e-mail, fax, information technology etc. has revolutionised communication in different parts of the world.

(ii) The ability of ideas, capital commodities and people to move more easily from one part of the world to another has been made possible largely by technological advances.

(iii) The digital and information resolution has changed the way the world learns, communicates, does business and treats illness.

(iv) Computer technology has made long distance learning an everyday reality.

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Global commons are those resources which are not owned by anyone but rather shared by a community. They include earth?s atmosphere Antartica, the Ocean floor and outer space.

Different environmental concerns becoming important in global politics.

(i) Cultivable area is barely expanding any more. Agricultural land is losing fertility, grasslands have been overgrazed

(ii) Safe drinking water is not available to many areas and population. Billions have no access to sanitation, resulting in. the death of more than three million children, every year.

(iii) Natural forests are being cut and people are being displaced. It has cost climate disturbances and loss of biodiversity.

(iv) A steady decline in the ozone layer in the Earth?s stratosphere is posing a real danger to ecosystems and human health.

(v) Coastal pollution is adding to the deterioration in the quality of marine environment.