Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Tom Tietenberg

This source is primary, scholarly, and fact.

The book gives completely unbiased views and counter views. 

I was able to find this book via a catalog search.  I was unaware that it was a popular book.

According to http://www.aneki.com/academic.html India has 8,407  universities compared to America’s 5,758.  However, India only has 6,060,418 students compared the America’s 14,261,778 students.  So although India is becoming m0re and more educated, America is still producing more scholars.  However Indian universities maybe more demanding than American univerisities.  Globalization will increase job competition especially between Americans and Indians.  As Indians continue to create more unverisities and scholars, one Indian college graduate could conceiveably compete with two American graduates.

The majority of our class decisions elaborate on the economic and technological impacts of globalization, however we rarely discuss globalization’s impact on countries standard of living or happiness.  I think farther globalization would be rather useless for mankind if it does not improve the world’s standard of living.  According to http://thehappinessshow.com/HappiestCountries.htm the top five happiest countries are 1.Nigeria 2.Mexico 3.Venezuela 4.El Salvado  5.Puerto Rico, the degree of globalization in these countries is generally never talked about in class largely because globalization is minimal.  Although these countries are the happiest in the world, they are barely given any praise in class.  However countries like China and India are constantly being applauded for their recent economic growth.  Should we as a class and as a culture prefer wealth over happiness?  Is globalization increasing the world’s wealth and not its happiness? 

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Globalization: The Flattening Force, originally uploaded by bgkitching.

Globalization can not be illustrated by only one picture, just as one definition cannot summarize the whole of globalization. This collage touches on some of the main aspects of globalization.

One of the most striking parts of my collage is the flattening of the globe into a two dimensional map of the world. It is placed in the middle of the collage due to its importance. Globalization is clearly making the world smaller and more interconnected. The arrows are the forces compressing the flat world; the arrows are globalization.

Corporations are also another big theme in my collage. This is because corporations are one of the major forces driving globalization. Corporations laid the cables which have digitally connected the world, as well as branched themselves to all corners of the globe. Corporations are connecting and spreading cultures throughout the world.

Technology is the root of all globalization, without innovation people and ideas would be isolated. Therefore computers and cables should rightly be part of my collage.

Politics control corporations to a large extent, and therefore influence globalization. I placed the UN and European Union in my collage to represent the power of politics over globalization.

My collage also contains a United States navy ship launching a missile. Political stability allows globalization to prosper, war can largely stagnate globalization.

Lastly, I placed an oil rig in my collage to represent the resources being exhausted as a result of globalization. I feel that the depletion of natural resources may become a huge factor in the slowing of globalization. How would the world respond to the total consumption of all the earth’s oil reservations?

My first definition of globalization:

The domination and evolution of one central culture, and the science of how that culture spreads throughout the world.