As society develops as do the effects of globalisation.
Humans are competitive specie that bounce off one another to constantly advance
their lifestyles. Globalisation has its positives and negatives, however if it
is viewed as humans working collaboratively, it lessens the negative impacts. I
believe the web globalisation has created is a positive and inevitable
achievement for humans. It has encouraged knowledge and advancements in a broad
range of categories. For example, the understanding of space stemmed from the
competition between the Soviet Union and the USA.
This knowledge has been spread and comprehensive information
of the environment and world we live in has only progressed positively. It is
through the scapes explored in the lecture that we can see how each scape affects
the other. In the Rantanen reading the idea of the ‘three phases of
globalisation’ is explored. However, I believe it can be contested that
globalisation does not eventuate from three categories, but instead many many
more. Waters claims that globalisation and its effects can be broken down to “…the
economy consists of 'social arrangements for the production, exchange,
distribution and consumption of goods and tangible services', and culture is
'social arrangements for the production, exchange and expression of symbols
that represent facts, affects, meanings, beliefs, preferences, tastes and
values' (1995: 7—8).”
Conversely, factors such as geography, for example, are not
considered. An example may be the acquisition of rice in Australia. Rice needs
lots of water to grow, Australia is an arid country, therefore are Australian’s
just meant to not eat rice? This may be a petty example, but my point is that
because a country cannot produce its own products, it should be able to source
it elsewhere. Likewise the example of cancer also shares this property. If a
cure for cancer was discovered in Britain, does Australian’s suffering from
cancer then not undergo treatment because an Australian did not find the cure. Globalisation
is the sharing of information and the quality to source the best country,
person, government, race, sex or economy to assist in its progression.
