Globalization

Colegio Internacional de Caracas
Jose Luis Yañez
Geography 12 IB

DISADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION

The world we live now days is more dangerous and less neat than it was supposed to be. The truth is that in the world we have more international terrorism and more nuclear production today than what we had fifth teen years ago. The fears of deadly disease and climate change have grown. Religious and cultural confrontations are more often happening, and recently the global financial system has decay at a terrifying rate. It is important to understand that Globalization is not the only reason for all of these challenges the world is going through, globalization is the means from which we arrive at this world issues but it is certainly humanity who has not been able to control it or use it wisely. “Globalization is very similar to fire, because if we use fire wisely, we can heat our homes, heat food, even develop metallurgy, but if we use it foolishly, fire can destroy peoples live.”

Thomas Friedman stated; "Globalization can be incredibly empowering and incredibly coercive. It can democratize opportunity and democratize panic. It makes the whales bigger and the minnows stronger. It leaves you behind faster and faster, and it catches up to you faster and faster. While it is homogenizing cultures, it is also enabling people to share their unique individuality farther and wider."

Globalization comes with a huge cost that humanity needs to learn how to control and manage in order to prevent future concerns; for example now day’s Nuclear weapons have become a source of destruction every country needs to have. Nuclear weapons have the power to destroy everything that stands on their way, men, women, children, and cities. The United States of America was the first country to develop nuclear weapons and this transmitted a powerful message to the world which said "This is what we are capable of doing and willing to do with our devastating new weapons; don't cross us or we could use them on you." This strong message also created a motivation for other countries to build nuclear weapons because they felt insecure. As a consequence countries who now have developed nuclear weapons can justify their reasons completely base on nuclear deterrence, and by deterrence they mean, in protection of any nuclear threat.

The United States of America created nuclear weapons because they felt threatened by a possible Nazi nuclear bomb. The Soviet Union then created nuclear weapons because they felt threatened by United States. The United Kingdom and France created nuclear weapons because they felt threatened by the Soviet Union. China felt threatened by the Soviet Union and the United States. India then felt threatened by China and so on. The creation of nuclear weapons has spread all around the world and has become on what is called proliferation. “Means to cause to grow or increase rapidly.”