SOCL 1246 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: World Trade Organization, Fungicide, Electronic Waste
31 Oct 2016
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Chapter 4: the unfair trade-o - globalization and the export of ecological hazards. Globalization: process by which technology, communications and political changes have intensi ed the worldwide exchange of money, goods, people and culture. The global ecological crisis creation of modern global communication and transport system, and development of advanced infrastructure in industrializing countries are granting industrial capital geographic mobility. East asia and the global south - large supplies of cheap and highly disciplined wage laborers, natural resources and energy supplies, tax advantages, and weak environmental regulation. commodities exported to capitalist countries. Pollution left behind. toxic waste, industrial pollution and other forms of anti wealth in the us becoming mobile and ending up in the third world. Dumping on the third world: the export of ecological hazards and environmental. Justice a uent countries are able to shift envm burden onto weaker states. Us economic planners cut costs by displacing envm problems on poorer nations (externalizing)
