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Globalization involves how the world economy is increasingly integrated, and the environmental implications of that. Moreover, Chernobyl was only the first signal that national borders are irrelevant to environmental problems, and global warming is clearly a pressing issue that makes international cooperation essential.

See also Economics, Human Rights,Colonialism, Food Scarcity, Labor, and Consumption, as well as Africa and Third World Development as well as Population See also Latin America and main Place Page.

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Articles

US setting up camps to house children fleeing drug gangs in Latin America 6/14. Sonia Nazario first introduced the world to Enrique through a series of Pulitzer Prize winning articles for the Los Angeles Times and then in the acclaimed 2006 book “Enrique’s Journey.” "I saw migrants inflicted with horrible cruelty, and also amazing acts of kindness. In South-Central Mexico, when people in tiny towns along the tracks heard the whistle of the train, I watched them rush out of their homes with bundles of food in their arms. They would wave, smile and shout out to migrants perched on top of the trains. They threw bread, tortillas, whatever fruit was in season—bananas, pineapples, or oranges. If they didn’t have even that, they lined up next to the tracks, and sent out a prayer to the migrants atop the train."Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit providing legal assistance to undocumented children. author video interview, Mother Jones series (6/14).

Garment workers die in fires (video) 11/12 not unlike the American Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 that galvanized labor. More than 1,000 people have died in Rana Plaza Bangladesh, plus background on issue 5/13.

Vandana Shiva, from “Economic Globalization Has Become a War Against Nature and the Poor” (2000) (includes argriculture)

8 Reasons Global Capitalism Makes Our Lives Worse 1/11.

How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back By George Packer NYT March 31, 2002.

Interactive

Hans Rosling created Gapminder.org, video overview. 2009 TEDtalk.

Books

List of books (a range of points of view and quality).

Yanis Varoufakis is author of [The Global Minotaur ] which expalin the lead up, aftermath and way forward out of 2008 crash oveview. See also Economics.

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008) Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008

Photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)

The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)

Globalization and the Demolition of Society by UCSC alum Dennis Loo (audio interview)

Poor Economics addresses the pitfalls of current aid programs and advocates for a radical new approach to thinking about poverty. audio interview. 5/11

World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester Brown (see eco-heroes) 2011 (video interview) 6/11

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey D. Sachs

We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism recommended by Rebecca Solnit.

Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" , video of talk given September 27, 2007. No Logo 2000. Both discussed in this video interview.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Thomas L. Freidman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, and The World Is Flat(here's video of lecture at MIT based on the latter book) on globalization, explains how America can lead the green revolution in the 21st century (audio and video too).

21st Century Dissent : anarchism, anti-globalization and environmentalism / Giorel Curran Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 McH Stacks - JC328.3 .C87 2006 Link

Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment James Gustave Speth (Editor), Island Press, 2003, ISBN: 1559639997, 192 pp UCSC: S & E Lib GE170 .W674 2003 Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth’s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco’s discussion of the scientific indicators of global environmental change to Robert Kates’ examination of the prospect that our growing global interconnectedness could lead a transition to a more sustainable world to Vandana Shiva’s impassioned plea for a new “living democracy” that counters the degrading, dehumanizing tendencies of the global economy. Other contributors include Maurice Strong on the Rio Earth Summit and the future course of environmentalism, José Goldemberg on energy, Jerry Mander on the inherent destructiveness of the global economic system, Stephan Schmidheiny on the forestry industry, and Daniel Esty and Maria Ivanova on global environmental governance. Download Google Book

In Defense of Globalization Jagdish N. Bhagwati.

Joshua Karliner's book, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club Books, 1997) is a good research tool for the impacts of corporate globalization.

Late Victorian Holocausts By Mike Davis.

The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli (video talk at UCSB)

Blogs

Globalization and the environment

Worldchanging.com

Video

UCTV has many good talks on globalization. So does ForaTV.

U2 head man Bono on ending poverty has good news, including on Sub-Saharan Africa. G2 phones fighting corruption. TEDtalk.

Global Witness co-founder Charmian Gooch exposes how a global architecture of corruption is woven into the extraction and exploitation of natural resources. 7/13 TEDtalk.

Two lectures on the political economy of migration by David Bacon Link Link

"Catastrophic but not Serious": Slavoj Zizek says this alleged message of the Austrian military headquarters during WWI renders perfectly our attitude towards the ongoing crisis: we are aware of the looming (ecological, social) catastrophes, but we somehow don't take them seriously. What ideology sustains such an attitude?

Global 3000 has extensive coverage of globalization issues. For example, Agricultural Land for Investors - Why Sudan's small farmers are being displaced. It's widely predicted that, by 2050, the population of the world will reach 9 billion and the need for food will increase by 70 percent. Also, Brazil has become the world's biggest exporter of beef. The government and farmers want to double production in the next 10 years.

The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Across the world, food riots are taking place. Scientist and activist Vandana Shiva explores whether the future will be one of food wars or food peace. She argues that the creation of food peace demands a major shift in the way food is produced and distributed, and the way in which we manage and use the soil, water and biodiversity, which makes food production possible. UCI 2008.

Hans Rosling created Gapminder.org. 2009 TEDtalk

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.1/11

Sut Jhally attempts to make the concept of "globalization" concrete. Using familiar objects (sneakers, coffee, diamonds, carpets) he traces the social history of these products and shows how everyone is implicated in the system of global production, distribution and consumption. Click for Part 1 Part 2

At the head of the Fair Labor Association, Auret van Heerden takes a practical approach to workers' rights, persuading corporations and NGOs to protect labor in global supply chains. TEDtalk video

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world’s squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. (Migration)

Academic Earth has lots of great talks on green issues. For example, here's one by Paula Goldman: Current Issues in International and Area Studies Berkeley. Campaigning and Citizen Activism, Business and the Environment, Part II

Charlie Rose is an excellent PBS interview series. Here, for example, he discusses foreign aid and development with Peter Singer, author of "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" as well as social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz and aid critic and Africa scholar Dambisa Moyo.

For two decades photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In his new book, Illegal People, Bacon examines the many ways globalization uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. (World Affairs Council audio interview, one hour mp3 download)

Often people are forced off farms and have to migrate to large cities to live in slums to work in factories. This is documented by Ed Burtynsky (video).

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world’s squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. (Migration) TEDtalk video.

UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga he received the best "Directing, U.S. Drama" award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature film Sin Nombre, based on his own firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking a better life in the U.S.

Stewart Brand on squatter cities. TEDtalk video

Eating dirt in Haiti. No kidding. ***

Garbage Dreams. Filmed over 4 years, this program follows 3 teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.

"Vulture funds" exploit compassionate debt relief to extort money from poor countries. video.

It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected society, for designers and consumers alike.TEDtalk

Dambisa Moyo, International Economist; Author, How The West Was Lost and Dead Aid. A former consultant for the World Bank and former emerging markets investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Moyo was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Link

Kevin Danaher (slug!), Director of Public Education at Global Exchange speaking May 21, 2003 at the University of Washington in Seattle: Two Kinds of Globalization also books and talks.

Audio

Charles C. Mann (1491) discusses the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the birth of globalization in terms of world trade and ecological collision.

Margaret Trost is founder and director of the What If? Foundation and the author of "On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti."

Greg Mortenson, Co-founder, Central Asia Institute; Co-author, Three Cups of Tea; Author, Stones in Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Local radio interview