Why Globalization is Dangerous for Sustainability?

By aphansey on May 24, 2010 1 Comment Atlantic cod, Bejnamin Linder, Boston, carrying capacity, division of labor, ecological costs, economics, economy, ecosystem, food web, George's Bank, global trade, globalization, limiting factor to growth, natural resources, Olin college of Engineering, population, resource limitations, sustainability, transportation, trophic cascade

Although globalization can help create additional value and increased efficiencies for national economies, it has an obvious negative impact in terms of the ecological costs of transportation. However, global trade’s more severe but less-understood threat to sustainability is its incompatibility with the carrying capacities of our natural ecosystems.