Michael J. Panzner
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 In no time at all, the economic malaise will spread throughout the domestic economy and, by way of various trade links, international financial markets and other nodes of globalization to the rest of the world. Hardest hit initially will be countries that depend on the free-spending ways of the overburdened American consumer. They will be the same nations that accumulated massive reserves of dollars and holdings of U.S. assets in an expensive yet ultimately failed strategy to maintain an export market for their rapidly expanding output. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In the next chapter, we will see how the new forces unleashed by globalization may leave the United States with little choice but to adapt to the rising consciousness about environmental risk.
Chemical Revolution
Human Test Dummies
One drizzly fall morning in Brussels, I followed a troupe of women on a visit to the European Parliament. They were a motley gathering of three generations from thirteen families —grandmothers, mothers, and daughters —making their way through the vast chambers of the Parliament's Spinelli Building. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| The shift will reflect a dramatic turnaround in the multidecade march toward globalization, as faltering growth and widespread financial and social upheaval induce governments everywhere to fence domestic economies away from unfolding turmoil. Despite those efforts, collapsing demand in the United States will reverberate far and wide, especially in regions such as Asia, which have become overly dependent on seemingly insatiable American consumer spending. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Spiritual malnourishment has reached epidemic proportions in the Western world, with the rest of the world following close behind as modernity and globalization continue to encroach with their life-killing ways. The commodification of nature is a direct reflection of our separation from our own true nature, the aspect of ourselves that knows our connection to spirit through the Earth, and this blatant disregard for the Earth and her sustaining ways indicates a great disease is among us. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Moreover, few Americans understood how and to what degree globalization, consolidation, innovation, and technology had altered the financial landscape. It was also hard to grasp the paradoxical idea that long periods of stability, which many viewed as inherently positive, were actually destabilizing. As economist Hyman Minsky once noted, the good times tended to foster the complacency and risky behavior that lay the groundwork for upheaval. |
Mark Schapiro
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| The fast-food chain served as a convenient and irritating symbol of how globalization was changing the treasured values of French cuisine. Now one of the farmers' major concerns was how new genetically engineered plants, incorporating genes from other species, might breed with their own crops and undermine the biological purity of their corn and the quality and nutrition of their food. The farmers' movement was going beyond assaults on la cuisine americaine into defending the soil of la terre franchise. |
| By dismantling the barriers of national prerogative, globalization created an imperial power of the market. The EU offers an example of the power that can be wielded in the realm of the environment. But the market can cut both or in multiple ways. It is inherently undemocratic. |
| Regulations might seem the realm of paper-pushing bureaucrats—hardly the realm of glamorous diplomacy—but it is here where clashes over values ripple through the international system. globalization was supposed to bring greater uniformity to the rules governing the flow of capital and labor, and to a great extent it has done so. But few of the architects of that system, and fewer still among its many critics—who appeared on the streets of Seattle or Montreal or Doha in the hundreds of thousands—could have imagined that regulations protecting citizens might actually be made stronger. |
| This phenomenon is being triggered, unexpectedly enough, by the mechanisms of free trade. globalization unleashed new sources of power with centripetal force; from Europe to emerging economies like China, Brazil, and India, trade flows are shifting and new forms of leverage emerging that the architects of a harmonized global economy may never have anticipated. During the cold war, power lay in the finger that held the trigger. In today's multipolar world, driven in the long run more by economic than military imperatives, the finger that writes the rules is the one with real power. |
| Europe was about to become the vanguard in a transatlantic environmental battle. globalization was shaking up traditional patterns of influence in everything from music to manufacturing. I interviewed Bo Manderup Jensen, a Dane who is the European Commission's chief liaison to the European Parliament (in America he would be a White House congressional relations officer), in his office in the upper floors of the Spinelli Building, who was intent on explaining how fundamentally the European Union was transforming the old imperatives of the single nation-state. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 It has taken us more than two hundred years and globalization to go from "Joe and Tim" to "Tang and Song."
The stories we are told are not always about fictional inventions such as Joe and Tim. Sometimes snippets of real personal detail come to us through a clinical report or from the transcript of an official commission of inquiry. For example, a pivotal twentieth-century industrial research experiment gives us considerable personal details of one the workers who was a key participant, although we are not told her first or last name:
No. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 In this age of globalization, is it conceivable that we in the wealthy developed world will continue to spend billions every year diagnosing and medicating children whose symptoms include "often fidgets with hands or feet" and prescribing lifelong speed to adults who "drum their fingers,"62 when each year millions of children and adults just across our borders will die early from preventable and treatable life-threatening diseases? Surely this is one obscenity too many. |
Carlo Petrini
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 The principle of guaranteeing within it the circulation of information, knowledge, products, and people is one that unites people—in particular, those who can't even dream of having these new experiences within the system of values that economic globalization is imposing. We must give economic value to other human values, in order to reconcile individual advantage with that of the group.
The gift and giving freely: to rediscover the value of the gift and of giving freely in a world like ours is to breathe life into the system of new earthly citizenship that responsible gastronomes desire. |
Alex Steffen
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 These hybrids, born at the crosshairs of globalization, have emerged either in order to improve our ability to communicate in diverse contexts or to provide a new way to create community.
In Kenya, for instance, Sheng is a Swahili-based patois that borrows from English and the ethnic groups Gky, Luo, and Kamba. It started in the 1970s among the urban youth in Nairobi's ghettos, but has since moved up the social ladder: Kenya's political classes now use it as well. |
| The results of globalization go beyond the success that U.S. grocery stores have had selling water from Fiji. You can get a Coke in Fiji, or in any of two hundred other nations. In 113 countries, you can use that Coke to wash down a McDonald's hamburger —or, in India, a vegetarian McAloo Tikki burger. You can watch a Bollywood film on your Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to London, where the video store has got all the hot new films from Lagos. And you'd probably need to go to Bhutan to avoid seeing ads for the newest Hollywood film. |
| If you're looking for information on the dark costs of globalization and how we might pursue fairer, more sustainable economies, look no further.
Creating Healthy Homes
No substance is more pure than mother's milk, right? Maybe that was true a few centuries ago, but today breast milk usually contains a whole host of toxins, including contaminants found in things like paint thinner, fungicides, and gasoline. The chemicals of industrial production that lurk everywhere make their way into our babies' bodies with every gulp. |
| Brand Sensitivity to Climate (Future-conscious Behavioral Shifts)
¦won Progressives, citizens who are concerned about the course of globalization, and supporters of diverse local economies alike lament the power that national and global brands have over our economic choices. But this emphasis on brand is arguably a lever for change: as people's attitudes toward a certain issue evolve, brands that become associated with that issue can emerge as positive or negative forces, depending on their stance. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Star Wars website, a British firefighters' union and a Nurse & Midwives fair pay campaign." Nevertheless, the campaign removed the slogan at L'Oreal's request and now had a few requests for L'Oreal in return. The letter requested a meeting with company officials to discuss nine L'Oreal products — three that contained the EU-banned phthalates and six that contained known or probable carcinogens according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 What should have sent up a red flag for political leaders and the media has been regarded as just another ho-hum phase of the globalization process. Whatever one thinks of industrial farming based on fossil fuel "inputs" —and I will later discuss at length America's desperate need to reform agriculture—the fact is that this is how we currently produce the bulk of our food (and food for many people in other nations), and to lose control of the basic means of production before we are ready to change could have catastrophic repercussions. |
Michele Simon
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 We can't talk about globalization without mentioning McDonald's, the company that has come to symbolize American food abroad. Currendy boasting more than 30,000 outlets in 119 countries, McDonald's already earns (along with KPC) the majority of its profits outside the United States. Classes at McDonald's Hamburger University are taught in twenty different languages. McDonald's currendy has 730 oudets in China and plans to reach 1,000 by 2008.9 Riding on McDonald's coattails is another American icon, Coca-Cola, whose soft drinks are sold at Golden Arches oudets worldwide. |
Carlo Petrini
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| If we considered only the general situation, we might well conclude that cooking has died out; but in reality, it is only a question of retrieving knowledge and know-how that still exists, of learning it, supporting it, and replicating it. For globalization in cooking is in fact a big paradox." In the past, the aristocracy pursued a certain kind of universalism; they could afford whatever they liked, they had access even to foodstuffs that were produced a long way away. |
Michele Simon
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| India Resource Center
Supports movements against globalization in India; particularly active in opposing the environmental destruction caused by Coca-Cola. Avww.indiaresource.org
International Food Policy Research Institute
Working to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries; publishes numerous reports and resources. www.ifpri.org
Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming
A UK-based coalition that advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, www. sustainweb. |
Alex Steffen
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| Everywhere, governments have lost a degree of economic influence in the face of globalization —the increasing mobility of capital across borders.
In the United States, government is especially weak. Taxes are low, so the government has limited ability to undertake infrastructure projects (say, transit lines) that help to shape urbanization. The United States has also created a set of legal "property rights" that limits the ability of communities (at all levels) to determine how land will be used. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Today, the combination of technology and globalization has turned much of our food supply into semisynthetic, genetically engineered, nutrient-lacking packaged goods. Take a look at your local supermarket. Most of the food you see is stuffed into boxes or other packages. It contains preservatives that ensure a long shelf life. Many North Americans tend to be overfed yet simultaneously malnourished. What a paradox!
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Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Although it is often the case that in both communities traditional knowledge and resources are undocumented and in danger of disappearing, this danger tends to be more pressing in local communities as their members continue to adapt to privatization and globalization. In cases such as these successful ethnobotanical intervention requires a methodology that combines "salvage ethnography" with "rapid assessment". This is the methodology that we are applying in Peru, which provides the rationale for the present paper. |
Michele Simon
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| But in an era of economic and political globalization, confining our strategy to U.S. borders makes little sense. Corporations must continue to grow or they will die. The only place left to go after companies have saturated the U.S. market is abroad. Even if we could somehow "ban" domestic sales of junk food, food corporations would simply carve out new markets overseas—as tobacco sellers have been doing for years. Thanks in part to tobacco-control initiatives here, the United States now makes up only 4 percent of the global tobacco market.6
There are already clear signs that U.S. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 In fact, if globalization has had unfortunate repercussions for people who switched to a Western way of life, Westerners themselves can benefit from the culinary traditions of other cultures. For those who insist on eating in a healthy manner and wish to protect themselves against diseases as deadly as cancer, an alternative to Western junk food certainly exists.
The object of this book is not to promote a specific diet or diets. |
Carlo Petrini
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| The peppers of Costigliole d'Asti are a symbol of globalization; amaranth and the wild herbs used in the Tehuacan soup tell of forgotten gastronomic knowledge and of ruined agricultural economies; the prawns of the Indian coasts are a manifestation of a mistaken concept of "development"; the vegetables in the farmers' market in San Francisco evoke the contradictions that well-meaning impulses can generate when they are grafted onto a system which is in itself somewhat perverse; (see Diaries
1, 2, 9, and 10, respectively). |
| It will involve making productive again those areas where agriculture has been abandoned because it was not viable according to industrial criteria; preserving, improving, and spreading the knowledge of the traditional practices which are demonstrating that other modes of production are possible; and giving new dignity and new opportunities to the people who have been marginalized by the globalization of agriculture. |
| This is an absolute predominance which feeds on globalization and spreads with it, becoming in turn the main standardizing factor for the whole world. All this is happening with increasing speed, because the main objective now seems to be the reduction of time to zero, according to Jerome Binde, assistant to the director general for the social and human sciences and director of the Forecasting, Philosophy, and Human Sciences division of UNESCO:
Where will it all end? |
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