prepare and submit a term paper on Effects of Globalization on the Environment. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length.

Nevertheless, global warming is not the only environmental problem in current times. Ghemawat found that increased energy needs, industrialization and increased mass consumption resulting from the increased global population are also contributing to resource depletion, pollution and extinction of species (par. 5). Globalization, in particular, has been blamed for these developments that are creating havoc to the environment. This document seeks to examine how globalization impacts the environment.

The world has experienced globalization over the past few decades. The globalization has been characterized by increased global trade and technological diffusion. Although globalization has benefited many parts of the world, its impacts on the environment have not gone unnoticed. It has emerged that globalization has created an increase in trade, production and consumption of resources in large quantities, which also impacts negatively on the environment. As much as it is still not easy to quantify the effects of globalization on the ground, evidence in some areas shows that the globalization impacts negatively on the environment.

Firstly, McAusland notes that the globalization impacts negatively on the environment by increasing the number of greenhouse emissions to the ground, which causes global warming (6). As earlier mentioned, climate change is a major environmental problem today. The world over is currently experiencing a global warming problem, which is characterized by increased temperatures, glacial movements, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and flooding, among others. Greenhouse emissions, in particular, are the main contributor to the global warming problem. Greenhouse gasses cause global warming by accumulating in the atmosphere where they destroy the ozone layer, thereby resulting in average increases in daily temperatures. Greenhouse emissions come from many sources, such as transportation, industrial production, and deforestation. Although these three sources of greenhouse emissions exist independent of globalization, their increase since the 1970s has mostly been linked to globalization, notes Ghemawat (par. 11).