Category:Globalization

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, Colonialism, and Consumption

Books

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.

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,

Late Victorian Holocausts By Mike Davis

Articles

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

Video

UCTV has many good talks on globalization.

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

Stewart Brand on squatter cities. TEDtalk video