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Globalisation May Actually Be Better For The Environment
Globalisation May Actually Be Better For The Environment
the environment
What do growing anti-globalisation sentiments—represented by
Brexit and Donald Trump's America First policy—mean for
resource use and environmental legislation? Experts Sylvanus
Kwaku Afesorgbor and Binyam Afewerk Demena discuss.
A glass globe. As countries restrict international trade, the environment is likely at risk.
Image: Vinícius Serafim, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
A good example of this is Iran, which has been slapped with economic
sanctions, making the country less integrated in the world economy.
The result has been domestic production that’s wreaked immense
havoc on the environment. As result of import bans of crude oil, for
example, Iran started refining its own crude oil that contains 10 times
the level of pollutants of the oil it used to import.