Since the Big Bang there has been a noticeable and continuous development or evolution that has led to our current existence. History has always contained a constant change, whether it is physical, mental or environmental. From the first hydrogen and helium atoms, to the formation of the planet we call Earth. From the earliest forms of life to the age of dinosaurs to the evolution of homo-sapiens. Most importantly the recent the shift of mindset from the Roman Empire to the feudalistic Organic paradigm and to the current Modern Industrial Paradigm. Humans have followed and still continued this pattern of advancement in contemporary society, always striving for more, to put into words, ‘if it can be done, it will be done.’ We have reached a
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This is a consequence of mass extinctions of plants and animals, alteration of the atmosphere and polluted oceans, which are all directly correlated to human evolution [Smithsonian, 2013]. Nowadays, oil fuels human development, its used to power and make almost everything, including, cars, aeroplanes, power plants, medicine, toothpaste, plastic and cosmetics. In the US alone they consume on average of about 19.4 million barrels per day, or 3.7 billion liters, which fills 1481 Olympic sized swimming pools. [U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2015]. However, the benefits of fossil fuels don’t reciprocate to the cons. Earth now warms at an alarming rate. In the last century the temperature has risen 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming [NASA, n.d.]. This has caused sea levels to rise almost 20 centimetres. Nonetheless, in the past 20 years’ sea …show more content…
Notable economic characteristics of a liberal-capitalist democracy during Modernity are international trade, consumerism, and globalisation, all of which support the exploitation of third world and continue to create a binary society. Oxfam’s latest reports claim that inequality has reached a global extreme, as 62 individuals now hold the same wealth as the bottom half of humanity [The Conversation, 2016]. John Pilger an Australian Journalist, who traditionally declassifies faults in mainstream society, recognized as early as 2001 in a film, ‘New Rulers of the World’, the polarization of wealth and power of multinational companies, under globalization, as being imperialistic because they have more influence in the countries they are established in, then the country itself. This film was one of the first to present disagreements with the management of Multinational companies, that still stand today. In this film, Pilger uses Indonesia as an example of economic control by a Multinational organization. He identifies that Indonesia shouldn’t be a poor and underprivileged country as it has a large supply of resources, timber and the skills and labor from its people, but as of 2015, 27 million
This is a consequence of mass extinctions of plants and animals, alteration of the atmosphere and polluted oceans, which are all directly correlated to human evolution [Smithsonian, 2013]. Nowadays, oil fuels human development, its used to power and make almost everything, including, cars, aeroplanes, power plants, medicine, toothpaste, plastic and cosmetics. In the US alone they consume on average of about 19.4 million barrels per day, or 3.7 billion liters, which fills 1481 Olympic sized swimming pools. [U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2015]. However, the benefits of fossil fuels don’t reciprocate to the cons. Earth now warms at an alarming rate. In the last century the temperature has risen 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming [NASA, n.d.]. This has caused sea levels to rise almost 20 centimetres. Nonetheless, in the past 20 years’ sea …show more content…
Notable economic characteristics of a liberal-capitalist democracy during Modernity are international trade, consumerism, and globalisation, all of which support the exploitation of third world and continue to create a binary society. Oxfam’s latest reports claim that inequality has reached a global extreme, as 62 individuals now hold the same wealth as the bottom half of humanity [The Conversation, 2016]. John Pilger an Australian Journalist, who traditionally declassifies faults in mainstream society, recognized as early as 2001 in a film, ‘New Rulers of the World’, the polarization of wealth and power of multinational companies, under globalization, as being imperialistic because they have more influence in the countries they are established in, then the country itself. This film was one of the first to present disagreements with the management of Multinational companies, that still stand today. In this film, Pilger uses Indonesia as an example of economic control by a Multinational organization. He identifies that Indonesia shouldn’t be a poor and underprivileged country as it has a large supply of resources, timber and the skills and labor from its people, but as of 2015, 27 million