Corporate profit stemming from globalization is having an impact on
flora and fauna worldwide. In my opinion, there's no better summary
about globalization and its impacts than the one in the chapter "We
Interrupt This Empire" in Paul Hawken's book "Blessed Unrest: How the
Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it
Coming."
In this chapter, Hawken's introduces the compelling notion that
globalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO),
World Bank, and International Monetary Fund (IMF), exists only to
support the civil rights of goods traded--not the civil rights and
welfare of the peoples who make these goods or the health and
sustainability of the world's ecosystems.
Roger Chapanis
Sammamish, WA USA
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> Bleak indeed. The article itself answers half your question:
> population growth.
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> The other half of the answer is: corporate profit mode (especially
> developers and builders). The decisions of government are made by
(or
> under the influence of) corporate standards of profit for
> stockholders, no matter what the cost or who or what has to suffer
> and die. It is part of the law that they MUST make profit, and be
> allowed to by law. This is the core problem with globalization and
> the American way of government, and not until it changes will the
> destruction diminish.
>
> This may be one person'sopinion, but for me it is the answer to
your
> question. Pretty bleak indeed.
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> On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Suzanne Williams wrote:
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> For any interested, this article from our local paper, gives a bleak
> outlook on Florida's wildlife's future. I want to know why if we
know
> how bleak it will be, why we can't do something about it now?
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> <http://www.theledger.com/article/20080903/NEWS/
> 809030375&tc=3Demail_newsl\
> etter>
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> Suzanne
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