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7. Both the creation of new social networks and the 21. Living or occuring at the same time.
multiplication of existing connections that cut Contemporary
across traditional political, economic, cultural and
geographic boundaries. 22. The circumstances and ideas of the present age.
8. The expansion, stretching, and acceleration of 23. Who coined the corporate giants.
these networks. Not only are global connections
Charles Taze Russell
multiplying, but they are also becoming more
closely-knit and expanding their reach. 24. Refers to the largely national trusts and other large
enterprises of the time.
Intensification
Corporate Giants
9. Who notes that "globalization processes do not
occur merely at an objective, material level but 25. In 1930, the word "globalize" as a noun appeared
they also involve the subjective plane of human in what publication.
consciousness."
Towards New Education
Manfred Steger
26. In what year the word "globalization" was coined.
10. It is a widespread belief among powerful people
that the global integration of economic markets is 1970
beneficial for everyone as it spreads freedom and 27. In what year the term "globalization" had been
democracy across the world. used in its economic sense.
Globalism 1981
11. Ideological component of globalization. 28. In 1980, he popularized the term globalization by
Globalism bringing it into the mainstream business audience.
Arjun Appadurai
29. year where globalization was often used in Silk Road
teaching, discussion, meetings and conferences.
8. Historians who addressed "When did full economic
2017
globalization start"? Dennis O. Flynn
30. on full swing in all academic disciplines.
Arturo Giraldez
2018
Mercantilism
26. Two financial institutions that delegates of Bretton 38. 1980s -2000s, it controlled global economic
Woods agreed to create. policies. Washington Consensus
- International Bank for Reconstruction
39. Government expenditure should be kept to a bare
and
minimum in order to minimize debt.
Development (IBRD) or the World Bank (WB)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington Consensus (proponents)
27. The one responsible for funding postwar 40. Neo liberalism proponents
reconstruction projects.
- Ronald Reagan
IBRD or World Bank
- Margaret Thatcher
28. The global lender of last resort to prevent individual
countries from spiraling into credit crises. 42. Presented herself as a mother who controlled
expenditures in order to lower national debt.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Margaret Thatcher
29. After Bretton Woods, various countries committed
themselves to further global economic integration 43. What caused the 2007-2008 greatest economic
through____ in 1947. downturn since the Great Depression.
Government officials failed to regulate risky
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) investments in the US housing market.
44. MBSs
30. Its main objective is to reduce tariffs and other
hindrances to free trade. Mortgage-backed Securities
GATT 45. Far right parties gained popularity by unjustly
blaming immigrants for their troubles, saying that
31. The price of oil rose sharply as a result of OAPEC'
they steal jobs and take advantage of welfare.
imposition of an___ to resupply the Israeli military
Europe
during Yom Kippur War.
46. WTO led reduction of trade barriers.
Embargo
Trade liberalization
32. The Arab member-countries of the OPEC.
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries' 47. Protectionist countries
(OAPEC)
33. A decline in economic growth (stagnation) takes Developed
place alongside a sharp increase in prices 48. Third World Countries
(inflation).
Countries that are poor or developing
Stagflation
49. What do we call to countries who refuse to lift
policies that safeguard their primary products that
could otherwise be overwhelmed by imports from 7. What one means when he/she refers to a "country"
the developing world. or what academics also call.
Protectionist Nation-state
Nationalist Movements 34. Who was the Metternich system main architect.
23. One of the fundamental principles of modern state Klemens von Metternich
politics.
35. A system of heightened interaction between
Sovereignty various sovereign states, particularly the desire for
increased cooperation and solidarity among states
24. A set of agreements signed in 1648 to end the and peoples.
Thirty Years War between the major continental
powers of Europe. Internationalism
26. He believed in spreading the principles of the 37. The first major thinker of Liberal Internationalism.
French Revolution to the rest of Europe, and
Immanuel Kant
challenged the power of kings , the nobility, and
religion in Europe. 38. According to him, without a form of world
government, the international system would be
Napoleon Bonaparte
chaotic. Immanuel Kant
27. French Revolution
39. Imagined a form of global government.
Liberty
Immanuel Kant
Equality
40. Who coined the word "international" 1780 and
Fraternity advocated the creation of international law that
would gobern inter-state relations.
28. Forbade birth privileges, encouraged freedom of
religion, and promoted meritocracy in government Jeremy Bentham
service.
41. He believed that global legislators should aim to
Napoleonic Code propose legislation that would create "the greatest
happiness of all nations taken together"
29. This system shocked the monarchies and the
hereditary elites of Europe and they mustered their Jeremy Bentham
armies to push back against the French emperor.
42. The first thinker to reconcile nationalism with liberal
Napoleonic Code internationalism.
49. The belief that the world's nations had a right to a 62. Those who did not own the means of production,
free and sovereign government. worked for the capitalists.
50. Most notable advocate for the creation of the 63. Co-author of Marx, believed that in socialist
League of Nations. revolution seeking overthrow the state and alter the
economy, the proletariat "had no nation".
Woodrow Wilson
Friedrich Engels
51. Axis Powers.
64. The Union of European Socialist and labor parties
Hitler's Germany
established in Paris in 1889.
Mussolini's Italy
Socialist International (SI)
Hirohito's Japan
65. SI's achievements.
52. Allied Powers United States
- Declaration of May 1 as Labor Day
United Kingdom
- The creation of International Women's Day
France
- 8-hour work day
Holland Belgium
66. When SI collapsed
53. League gave birth to some of the more task
World War I
specific international organizations. World Health
67. Leader of Bolshevik Party
Organization (WHO)
Vladimir Lenin
International Labour Organization (ILO)
68. USSR
54. Serve as a model for future international
collaboration. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WHO and ILO 69. Did not believe in obtaining power for the working
class through elections.
55. The manifestation of the liberal internationalism
principles Bolsheviks
League of Nations 70. Exhorted the revolutionary "vanguard" parties to
lead the revolutions across the world, using
56. Emphasized the need to form a common
methods of terror if necessary.
international principles.
Bolsheviks
Immanuel Kant
71. Russian revolutionary founded the Comintern to
57. It enshrined the principles of cooperation and
spread socialist revolution across the world.
respect among nation-states.
Vladimir Lenin
Giuseppe Mazzini
72. It served as the central body for directing
58. It called for democracy and self-determination.
Communist parties all over the world.
Woodrow Wilson
Communist International (Comintern)
59. He was an internationalist, but does not believe in
nationalism.
73. Who feared Comintern, believing it was working The power to diffuse norms
insecret to stir up revolutions in their countries
11. Who defines what a refugee is?
(which was true).
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Many world's states
12. These are accepted codes of conduct that may not
74. Lenin's successor who dissolved the Comintern in
be strict laws but produce regularity in behavior.
1943 and re-established Cominform.
NORMS
Joseph Stalin
13. He condemned the IMF for adopting a "one-size
75. Cominform
fits all" approach in making recommendations for
Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) developing countries.
United Nations
LESSON 4
15. How many active organs does UN have?
1. It refers to multiple intersecting processes that
generate an order. Five (5)
Public International Law 17. How many current state-members does GA have?
16. Why does NAM called itself non-aligned? 27. This is a regional network of NGOs and trade
union committed to protect and promote the
Because the association refused to side with either the rights and welfare of migrant workers.
First World capitalist democracies in Western Europe
and North America or the communist states in Eastern MIGRANT FORUM
Europe
28. It is a term describe economic growth plans
17. How many member countries Non Aligned that are market based, profit-driven and have a
Movement have? little regard for social welfare.
18. It can be "tiny associations that include no 29. Ally of Migrant Forum Asia and lobbied ASEAN
more than a few actors and focus on an issue governments to defend migrant labor rights.
or large continental unions that address a
Coordination of Action Research on AIDS (CARAM)
multitude of common problems from territorial
defense to food security" 30. The most crisis-ridden regional organization.
19. They rely on the power of individuals, 31. It is term used to described how United
nongovernmental organizations NGOs, and Kingdom leave the European Union. BREXIT
associations to link up with one another in
pursuit of a particular goal. 32. It became the norm of ASEAN in 2021.
20. What do we call those some organizations 33. The most serious challenges of regionalism
who faces.
partner or work with governments to initiate social Militant Nationalism
change? LEGITIMIZERS
Populism
21. Those who participate in "institutional
mechanisms that afford some civil society 34. Comprised 37% of the world's population in
groups voice and influence in technocratic 2007.
policy-making processes". LEGITIMIZERS Asia-Pacific Economic Council (APEC)
22. What does NAFT+A mean? 35. There is strength in numbers.
NATIONAL AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT Regional Alliance
23. The members of this participate in forums,
summits, and dialogues with presidents and
ministers.
LESSON 6 16. It is seen as ____, membership in a religious
group, org, or cult which ties individuals
1.It follows human-made laws and is preoccupied with
directing to divine and supernatural.
material gains. GLOBALISM
SUPERIOR
2.It assumes that there is the possibility of
communication between humans and the 17. These groups believe that living among
transcendent. RELIGION "nonbelievers" will distract them from their
mission or tempt them to abandon their faith
3.It measures how much human action may lead to the
and become sinners like everyone else.
highest level of material satisfaction as well as
knowledge that this new position provides. Rizalitas of Mount Banahaw, Essences roman
GLOBALISM controlled Judea(now Israel), Mormons in Utah
4. Less concerned with wealth and all that comes 18. The first revolts against colonialism in Asia and
along with it. RELIGIOUS Africa are led by.
TO LIVE A VIRTUOUS, SINLESS LIFE 19. He argues that far from being secularized, the
contemporary world is furiously religious.
6. Less concerned about whether they will spend
eternity in heaven and soul. Peter Berger
Government Policy
31. It was shaped by the rationality of modern and 44. In 1998, it brought in religious leaders in its
democratic and bureaucratic culture. discussions about global poverty leading
eventually to a "cautious, muted, and qualified"
Church of England
collaboration in 2000.
32. He broke away from Roman Catholicism and
WORLD BANK
established his own Church to bolster his own
power. 45. Who are these two people who observed
religion as outside looking globalization as a
King Henry VIII
problem or potential.
33. In US, religion and law were fused together to
Peter Bayer
build.
Lori Beaman
"MODERN SECULAR SOCIETY"
46. It is the thesis that modernization will erode
34. He is french historian and diplomat who wrote,
religions practice.
"Not only do the Americans practice their
religion out of selfinterest but they often even Secularization Theory
place in this world the interest which they have
47. One of the strongest defender of globalization,
practicing it."
admits in his book that civilizations can be held
Alexis de Tocqueville together by religious worldviews.
Samuel Huntington
35. He is the one who confirms the statement
noting that "historically, religion has always 48. Book Samuel Huntington.
been at the very center of all great political The Clash of Civilizations
conflicts and movements of social reform.
49.They used religion as "ideological armature" to
Jose Casanova legitimize spanish empire.
36. It utilizes religion to resist "profane" Jesuits and Dominicans
globalization.
50. One of the strongest sociologist of all time and
Religious movement observed that religion and capitalism as an
37. What are the two old world faiths. economic system.
38. It address issues such as people's health, 51. It is the branch of Protestantism who believed that
social conflict, and even personal happiness. God already decide who would and would not be
saved.
Moral standards +
Calvinism
39. It is a "pro-active force" rather than regressive
force. 52. It contributed to the rise of modern capitalism.
40. They see globalization as trojan horse that 53. He is american president who stated "after a night
hides followers of western principles such as of prayer and soul searching, he had concluded
secularism, liberalism, and communism. that it was the duty of the US to educate Filipinos
and uplift and civilize and christianize them and by
Muslims God's grace do the very best we could by them"
3. He describes media as a means of conveying 13. Smartphone- allows users to keep in touch
instantly with multipe people at the same time
something, such as a channel of communication”
14. Cellphones- broaden people’s horizons; limit
Jack Lule
the senses; change with a trade-off
4. Person’s Voice
15. Pioneer thinkers: believed global media
Medium homogenized culture
5. Plural of medium; the technologies of mass 16. Cultural Imperialism- American ideals and
communication.
culture would triumph over all others
Media
17. Herbert Schiller: spread of “American”
6. Include books, magazines, and newspapers.
capitalist principles; not only the world was
Print Media becoming more Americanized, but that this process
7. Involve radio, film, and television. was also resulting in the spread of American
capitalist principles 18. John Tomlinson: cultural
Broadcast Media
globalization is a cover for “western cultural
imperialism”, promotes
8. Cover the internet and mobile mass communication
9. Email, internet sites, social media, and internet 19. Texts- the content of any medium
based video and audio 20. Ien Ang: Indonesian critic, researched how various
Internet Media viewer in the Netherlands reacted to the
10. They refer media- technologies of mass American soap opera Dallas; from 42 letters
Communication. a. Observed that viewers invested “a lot of
Commentators emotional energy”
11. Marshall McLuhan: “the medium is the
21. Elihu Katz and Tamar Liebes: expand on Ang’s
message”; media reshapes society research; looked how viewers from various cultural
a. Television- shapes the social groups understood Dallas;
behavior of users and reorient family a. Different meanings and pleasures from
behavior; transforms the world into “global them
c. Highlights the historically and 22. Audience Studies: emphasizes that media
consumers are active participants in the meaning
technologically distinct characteristics of making process, viewing media texts according to
diverse media. their own cultural lenses
media; mostly focused on societal issues of 24. Jollibee- number one choice for fast food in Brunei
culture overwhelming local ones. into isolated bubbles of people who do not
“global city”
33. Echo Chamber- where one’s established thoughts
34. Herd Mentality- how people can be influenced by Exchange (NYSE); represents the
majority highest concentration of capital in
35. Vladimir Putin- Russian tyrant, hired legions of the world ii. London: Financial
socmed “trolls” Times Stock Exchange (FTSE)
a. Paid users who harass political iii. Tokyo: Nikkei
opponents c. Los Angeles: suprassed New York (cultural
b. To control public thru intimidation & importance
false information d. San Francisco: home to most dominant online
36. American Intelligence Agency- established that companies
Putin used trolls and online misinformation to help
Donald Trump win the presidency e. Center of trades and finance: Shanghai,
Beijing, &
37. Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkish president
Guangzhou
threatened by online mobs pro-government trolls
f. Shanghai Stock Exchange: the fifth largest
38. “alternative facts” – pres trump closest aides
stock market in the world
39. Global television- establishing a global
monoculture
g. Sydney: Australia’s largest city; controls the supreme court,
monument
world’s “most livable city”
ii. Canberra: Australia’s political capital;
i. A place w/ good transit, a strong cultural
i. New York: largest stock market in the world Organizations (political hotspots)
chain - Has the busiest container port (33M+ d. Frankfurt: European Central Bank, oversees
euro
container) - China as the manufacturing
center of the world C. Centers of higher learning and culture
vii. Singapore: Asia’s most competitive city - Origin of “new Nordic” cuisine
name
incorruptible gov’t &
viii. Singapore: cultural hub for the
livability) - Houses the
region; houses some of the regions top
regional offices of many
television station and news organizations
major global corporations (MTV Southeast Asia & Channel News
B. Centers of Authority Asia) 5. Global cities, due to cultural power,
g. Zealots of Islam State of Iraq and the 10. Thomas Malthus: british scholar, who warned
Levant (ISIL): coordinated attacks in Paris (An Essay on the Principle of pPopulation)
h. New York and San Francisco: populated by world food supply by the middle of 19th
i. Gentrification- process of displacing the 11. Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne: American biologist,
poor in favor of newer, wealthier residents revived Malthus prediction
j. Banlieues- ethnic enclaves; poor muslim a. Wrote The Population Bomb, overpop in
migrants in France 1970s and 80s bring about environmental
disasters lead to food shortage & mass
starvation
LESSON 9
b. US: lead in the promotion of global pop
1. Having a child is a symbol of successful union
RURAL control to reduce growth rate to zero
- multiple children and big kinship: important assets for disastrous envi, soc, & indus threat” to d world 14.
rura families
Advocates of pop control: contend for universal
4. Urban
access to reprod. techs, giving women rights
- families with two incomes and who are urbanized,
educated, and professional 15. Puerto Rico: “poor country” -> “modern nation”
- parents: both tied down or committed to their 16. Politics determine “birth control” programs
separate careers 17. “irresponsible fecundity” of Egyptians
- long-term savings: priority of these families
18. Indian gov’t “marked lower castes, working poor, &
5. UN: 85% rural pop 1975; 90% end of 20th cent.
muslims as hypersexual & hyper-feud &, a drain on
nat’l resource”
19. China “violators” forced sterilized 20. Vietnam & 33. Abortion, acc to religious wing, a perversion that
a. Clusters in income disparities; 37. 1960s women’s movement in the US: responsible
b. With “transpo, housing, air-pol, waste mgt.” for d passage & judicial approval of a pro-choice
impact on the envi., pol., & resources 12. Top three regions of origin
1. Treat it as a complex social phenomenon that even - Middle East and North Africa (14%)
predates contemporary globalization.
13. Top three countries of origin
Migration
- India
2. Two forms of migration
- Mexico
- Internal Migration
- China
- International Migration
14. 50% global migrants: relocated from
3. It refers to individuals moving from one location to underdeveloped to developed countries
another within the same country
15. McKinsey Global Institute: "first generation
Internal Migration immigrants constitute 13 percent of the population
in Western Europe, 15 percent in North America,
4. It refers to people moving beyond national borders.
and 48 percent in GCC countries.
International migration
16. The percentages of Migrants in cities
5. Five Categories of International Migration
92%- US 95%-
- Immigrants
UK
- Laborers
99%- Australia
- Illegall Migrants
17. Migrant influx: destination countries are debating
- "petitioned" by family whether migrants are assets or liabilities to national
development.
- Refugees or Asylum-seekers
18. Anti-immigrant and nationalist movements: assert
6. It is composed of individuals who relocate to that governments must regulate legal immigration
another country permanently. and prevent outsiders from entering countries
Immigrants illegally.
7. Stationed in another country for a set period of time 19. Two examples of leaders that reversed their
(at least 6 months in a year). countries pro-immigration and refugee-friendly
8. It comprises the third group. - Prime Minister Theresa May: United Kingdom
Illegal Migrants 20. Who attempted to ban travel into the US of people
from majority Muslim countries.
9. Migrants whose families have petitioned them to
move to the destination country. Donald Trump
11. 247 million: individuals who are currently living 23. 2013 report on gov. welfare spending by
outside of their native nations. Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD): native born citizens still
90%- economic reasons receive higher support compared to immigrants
24. International Monetary Fund (IMF): the influx of - Philippines: Philippines' Overseas
refugees fleeing from the wars in Syria and Iraq will Employment Agency
boost Europe's GDP, albeit "modesty".
36. International Labour Organization (ILO): identified
25. Germany: influx of refugees from Middle East has 40.3 million victims of modern slavery -
little influence on social welfare programs, wages,
24.9M: forced laborers
and jobs. contribute much needed services to
economy - 15.4M: coerced into marriage
26. Continued to have the highest recorded remittance. - 28.7 million or 71% victims: women and children
India 37. 90M: ILO's estimation of total no. of victims of
modern slavery
27. India followed by: China, Mexico, and Philippines
38. Forbes Magazine: estimated that human traffickers
28. Contribute significantly to the development of small
profited $150 billion
and medium term industries, which in turn assist in
creating jobs. 39. China, India, Western Europe: have more access
Remittances Middle East, North Africa, Sub-saharan Africa: face
greater challenges in securing jobs 40. US and
29. Asian Development Bank (ADB): observes that in Singapore: blue-collar
countries such as the Philippines, remittances do
not have a significant influence on other key items 41. Filipino workers: white-collar (doctors, engineers,
of consumption or investment such as spending on and corporate executives); professionals
education and health care.
42. Linguistic challenges, old country habits, conflicting
- remittance helps lift households out of poverty... but religions: may cause rifts between migrants and
not in rebalancing growth, esp. in the long run people of receiving countries
30. Brain drain: global migration is siphoning... 43. Lack of integration: provides xenophobic and
qualified personnel and removing dynamic young antiimmigrant groups; argue "new citizens are not
workers. nationals"
31. McKinsey Global Institute: Countries in 44. Chinese Benevolent Association of California:
SubSaharan Africa and Asia have lost one third of their offers initial assistance to new Chinese migrants by
college graduates. assisting them in obtaining work or establishing
small enterprises in California and elsewhere.
32. 60%: who relocated to OECD countries
college graduates 45. Global migration: entrails globalization of people
33. Half of Filipinos (52%): who leave for 46. Scapegoats: blaming migrants for economic woes
employment in the industrialized world have college that in reality caused by government policies not by
degrees. foreigners.
34. World Health Organization (WHO): introduced 47 Xenophobia- dislike of or prejudice against people
the term "critical shortages" from other countries.
g. deforestation leading to a reduction in oxygen and 7. Heavy metals coming out of heavy industries:
an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, contaminated 20 million or one-fifth of the total arable
which contributed a 150% increase in ocean acidity lands of China's soil.
in the previous 250 years
8.Scientists: suggest that this partly explains the
h. the ozone layer, which protects the world from the reduction of 10 million tons of food supply annually.
sun's harmful UV rays, being depleted due to the
presence of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the
atmosphere 9. 2015: pollution had contaminated more than
85% of Shanghai's surface water; thus, it was declared
i. acid rain resulting in fossil fuel combustion, toxic unsafe.
romingounds emitted by erupting volcan
combustiast piles of rotting vegetables clogging 10. In Tianjin (population: of 2014, 14 out China's
landfills or strewing the streets 31 provinces water were unable to reduce 95% of the
supposedly potable pollution in their surface water.
j. Industrial and community garbage residues flowing
inte underground water tables, rivers, and seas, 11. In 2019, 21 of the 30 cities that have the worst
thus, polluting water supplies air quality worldwide are in India.
k. As a city grows into a megalopolis, it continues to 12. WHO: reported that the air pollution in 80% of
expand devastating farmlands, increasing traffic cities worldwide exceeded its guidelines, and about 7
congestion, and making smog a permanent urban million deaths across the world were caused by air
element. pollution.
l. pandemics and other public-health concerns caused 13.94% of Nigeria's population: vulnerable to air
by wastes contaminating drinking water, filthy pollution that the WHO has classified as harmful
surroundings that serve as breeding grounds for
14. Gaborone- Botswana's capital, is the world's
mosquitoes and disease- carrying rodents, and
seventh most polluted city.
pollution
15. By 2030: the amount of aerosols and other
m. genetic alterations in food production, resulting
gases emissions by car exhaust, wood or rubbish
in a profound transformation of food systems.
burning, indoor-cooking, diesel-fueled electric
generators, and petrochemical factories are expected
to quadruple.
3. Genetic alterations in food production, resulting in a
profound transformation of food systems "that 16. Wastes from coal, copper, and gold mines:
Kilauea has been releasing more than twice the polluting rivers and oceans, killing sea life
amount of noxious sulfur dioxide gas (SO₂) the
17. Malanjkhand: India's largest copper mine;
single dirtiest power plant on the United States
releases high quantities of hazardous heavy metals
mainland."
into waterways
4. When Mount Pinatubo erupted on June 15, 2001
22. Asian monsoon: had become a transportation - 37% (4 million people) of the population live in slum
system for contaminated air into the stratosphere, and settlements
scientists are now linking Pacific storms to the
-Slum settlements: areas where "[t]he effects of urban
increase of pollution in Asia.
environmental problems and threats of climate change
23. The changing rainfall patterns in Asia and the are also most pronounced due to their hazardous
Atlantic ocean can be attributed to aerosols. location, poor air pollution and solid waste
management, weak disaster risk management, and
24. Climate change across Asia and Africa: - limiting coping strategies of households."
resulted in droughts
37. Marife Ballesteros: concludes that this unhealthy
- hastened the process of desertification
environment "deepens poverty, increases the
25. 50,000 rivers in China 20 years ago; 28, 000 vulnerability of both the poor and non-poor living in
vanished by 2013 slums, and excludes the slum poor from growth.
26. Scientific American: journal; blamed the pollution 38. One of the major ironies of urban pollution: the
for contributing to more than half a million necessities that the poor has access to are also the
premature deaths each year at the cost of sources of the problem.
hundreds of billions of dollars
39. Bus:
27. 2018: 2.1M people were afflicted with lung cancer;
- The main workhorse of the public transport system.
1.8M died
- Because it runs mainly on diesel fuel, it is now
28. Doctors point air pollution causes
considered "one of the largest contributors to
- household burning environmental pollution problems worldwide."
-fumes from heavy industries as the culprit - is another method of transportation that the poor may
afford.
29. Indonesia and Malaysia: link between forest fires
and mortality had been established 41. Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi,
India: "Two-wheelers form a staggering 75%-80% of
You sent the traffic in most Asian cities.
30.West Virginia coal mining: 42. Motorcycles:
- made people sick - are powered by the combustion of oil and
- rare cancers, little kids with kidney stones gasoline and "emit more smoke, carbon monoxide,
and hydrocarbons, and particulate matter than the gas-
premature deaths only four-stroke engines found in newer motorcycles."
31. Poor: disproportionately affected by environmental
challenges
- emit four times the amount of dangerous smog the lives of its citizens, developing countries see no
as buses. reason why they cannot do the same.
- think that in order for their countries to be The accumulation of billions of tons of carbon dioxide
completely developed, they must be industrialized, (from coal-burning power plants and transportation),
urbanized, and populated by a healthy middle class other air pollutants, and other gases in the atmosphere
with access to the best of modern amenities. causes global warming.
- worst polluter in the history of the world, accounting 53. Global warming:
27% of global carbon dioxide emissions
- changed the summer monsoon patterns in India and
-60% of carbon emissions originate from cars and Southeast Asia
other Vehicles on American highways
- results in sporadic flooding
46. China, India, and Indonesia:
54. Super Typhoon Haiyan: devastated central
- currently engaged in a frenetic race to catch Philippines in 2013
up with the West in terms of economic growth
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mexican
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