Difference Between Globalisation And Sustainability

Globalisation, which is partly synonymous with rising international trade, has fostered the rapid production, consumption of material goods and trade in unprecedented quantities. This has weighted the ecological footprint of human activities around the world. Globalisation accompanied by impacts on the interlinked areas of environment, equality and political stable, and thus there are clear and established connections with the concept of sustainable development (Little and Green, 2009). Theoretical debate about globalisation and sustainability centres on two major intellectual paradigms. Firstly, the ecological paradigm is based on the science of ecology, emphasizes the health and survival of natural ecosystems over human welfare. Secondly, the …show more content…
The underlying causes are said to be consumerism, industrialisation, technological innovation, population growth, income inequality. There is some examples of interaction between environment and globalization. Scale and composition of economic activity changes, and consumption increases, allowing for more widely dispersed externalities. Income increases, creating more resources for environmental protection. Besides that, techniques change as technologies are able to extract more from nature but can also become cleaner. Next, global interactions facilitate exchange of environmental knowledge and best practices. Environmental consciousness also increases with emergence of global environmental networks and civil society movements. Other than that, globalization facilitates the spread of existing technologies and the emergence of new technologies, often replacing existing technologies with more extractive alternatives; greener technologies may also be spurred. Globalization helps spread a homogenization of consumption-driven