Has Globalization Improved Or Hindered Nation-states’ Capacities To Respond To Environmental Crises?

HAS GLOBALIZATION IMPROVED OR HINDERED NATION-STATES’ CAPACITIES TO RESPOND TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES?
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Has Globalization Improved or Hindered Nation-States’ Capacities to Respond to Environmental Crises?
The human race is faced by some challenges that have been done by the current generation all due to globalization. The term ‘our’ refers to the current generation and every person who has contributed to both positive and negative results of globalization. Pierik and Werner use the term, “all-inclusiveness” (2010, p. 2) to all the people who live across the earth, have access to basic needs and whose basic rights are well catered for. This means every person who has the right to clean air or water. Therefore, it is the responsibility of every person on the earth to tackle the positive and negative impacts of globalization. As expressed in World Poverty and Human Rights, Pogge states that “every human being has a global stature as the ultimate unit of moral concern” (2002, p. 169). However, at the moment, the case is a different and environmental issue has become a big problem that needs to be tackled as its effects are still felt and human activities are the main contributors of globalization. Thus, there is a need to discuss whether globalization is the key factor that is hindering or improving the response to the environmental crisis.
In the book, Globalization and Environmental Reform, Mol states that the environmental results from globalization have a relationship to the demand and supply of products and this results to a situation referred as “Global Capitalism” (2001, p. 71). Therefore, global capitalism interferes with how stable the environment is. The key question is whether globalization is eco-friendly. Global capitalism has certainly interfered with the climate system and the entire environment. However, is the distribution of environmental threats related to global capitalism equal all over the globe? And are the effects of greenhouse emissions equal in every country? According to Mol, threats from the environment have been globalized over time and the notion that globalization is all over the world cannot be escaped from (2001 p. 79). However, not every scholar shares the same ideas with Mol. Gray conceptualizes that the more developed countries have come up with ways that help them conserve their environments more than the underdeveloped countries by introducing environmental regulations and are hence exporting pollutants to the other countries (Gray cited in Lofdahl, 2002, p. 9). Thus, this is one of the negative impacts of globalization. Risks from globalization to the environment have not been equally shared which is fair, more so in disposing pollutants to other parts of the world. The environmental risks from globalization should be equally shared across the globe and this will be essential in providing means that could conserve the environment. Similar beliefs have also been shared by David Heater when he states that if it is possible, one should participate in positive conservation and cleansing schemes with an understanding of the most deleterious environmen...