Tnc's Economic Influence

This source is a political cartoon. The leaves of the tree are different TNC’s. The roots of the tree are on multiple countries. This source is in the perspective of people/groups that are against TNC’s and free trade agreements. This source is addressing concepts of outsourcing, tariffs, and free trade agreements. This source was created with the purpose of showing the negative aspects of TNC’s and free trade agreements. Many of the TNC’s shown in this source operate in multiple countries. This is also supported by the documentary, the True Cost. As seen in the documentary, many TNC’s outsource labour in order to maximize profits by reducing production costs. As further seen in the documentary, workers are paid unfair wages, as well as subject …show more content…
However, as previously stated, many countries that TNC’s choose to outsource labour to either do not enforce or loosely enforce environmental laws. With the aid of free trade agreements, TNC’s are destroying both the environment and sustainability, thereby slimming our chances at long term prosperity, due to the fact that our prosperity is dependent on the environment. This is also shown in the source itself. In the source the roots of the tree are on multiple countries. Usually, trees/plants receive nutrients and water through their roots. Therefore, by showing the ‘leaves’ as TNC’s, and the roots on multiple countries, it is showing that sustainability may not be achievable with the way things are right now. The roots will continue to suck ‘nutrients’ and ‘water’ (natural resources) until they go dry. Therefore, in order to achieve long term, prosperity that is also sustainable, TNC’s, free trade agreements/organizations, ‘developing’ countries, as well as us as consumers need to change the way we think about long term sustainable …show more content…
Economic globalization has had a negative effect on sustainability, however, if the government is willing to somewhat move on from fossil fuels, and begin to subsidize renewable energy, economic globalization can also aid in increasing sustainability. Therefore, instead of our economy revolving around fossil fuels, and as a result making our prosperity finite, we can begin to increase our use of renewable energy, and have our economies revolve around renewable energy, thereby ensuring perhaps infinite prosperity that is also sustainable for generations to