January 2017 china announced 200 coal fired power stations will be built leaving northern china covered in thick smog for weeks. Environment almost always a loser, transport of goods makes the atomsphere a loser as co2 and nitrogen oxides are emitted by planes/ships -More electricity required to run factories + China and india exploit their own large coal reserves and inadequate regulation about emissions means air/water pollution is a major problem. Unemployment brings social costs of illness, possible spiral of decline -Some workers may get redundancy money so may be seen as winners. At its core, globalization is the lowering of economic and cultural impediments to communication between countries all over the globe.
The increase of globalization has been an economic force throughout the last century, but economic interdependency is not its only by-product. Indian workers winners as wages are much higher than average £60 per week but USA Yahoo workers are losers as they have lost jobs. Electronic Media and the Globalization of Culture. India, Yahoo has offshored some of its software operations, as highly trained engineers are available and paid less (£250 week) than California (£2000 week).
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