4. environmental change
- Degradation through raw material production

Question: Identify the effects of agro-industrialization and changes in international production and consumption on the physical environment.

Answer:

As population continues to increase around the world especially in South East Asian countries and India the world needs to find a new way to keep up with the population in terms of food production. Every living thing in our world is finite and therefore all the food supplies that we have is finite. It is very much possible that our world enters world war 3 due to scarcity of resources and crops. An anti-malthusian would say that our great and ever improving technology will help us in the future when it comes to feeding our growing population. In the past being a farmer in the agriculture business was a norm. However nowadays due to globalisation no one dreams to become a farmer and therefore people who want to work for agriculture decreased.

To solve the problem of trying to feed the world and keeping up with the ever growing population. Agro-industrialization is the process of having factory like farms in which huge amounts of space is used mainly for agriculture. Agro-industrialization has changed international production some of the developing nations have been agro-industrialized in which one of their biggest exports are in agriculture. For example the United States is known for maiz, while vietnam is known for rice. Nowadays we have genetically modified crops to increase yield numbers. Consumption world wide has definitely increased over the years and therefore agro-industrialization is a good thing because it would feed the growing population.

Off-shoring risk' to thousands of council jobs

A company called Service Birmingham is going to off-shore 70 IT jobs to India. Unite Union says its "outrageous" because the council workers might have to train the workers where their jobs will be off-shored in which basically means that they will be training someone to take over the jobs, which means they will loose their jobs in the future. In general we know that lots of companies in Europe and America are not looking to off-shore jobs to developing countries which creates thousands of jobs in the chosen off-shored location however it results in the homeland employees loosing their jobs and becoming unemployed. Companies do this to save costs due to the fact that wages are lower. \

Something cool: http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/movshare.php?id=533f3774dcebc
Talks about how this power plant will move to INDIA! AND!! its a Simpsons cartoon! (P.S. might have scenes that are provocative and might have bad words, i ain't sure)

How does this relate to growing disparities between the rich and the poor?

How do you think ICT plays a role in growing outsourcing and off-shoring of nations using the example given?

http://www.asean.org/news/asean-secretariat-news/item/argentina-to-foster-further-cooperation-with-asean

The ambassador of Argentina feels that the ASEAN nations are very successful and believes that they are highly interested in working with them. This can be a start in promoting ASEAN and the ambassador of Bocalandro believes this can pave way for promoting region to region cooperating between ASEAN and other Multi-governmental organizations, but for now ASEAN and argentina will cooperate to explore common interest. 

Choose either the concept of cultural diffusion (voluntary/consented change in culture)or cultural imperialism (enforced/pressured change in culture) and using specific examples explain how transnational corporations either intentionally or unintentionally spread consumerism through your chosen concept.

Cultural Diffusion: There are two types of cultural diffusion one is called forced diffusion and the other is called Direct diffusion. I will first talk about forced diffusion as its name is exactly what it means. Basically forced diffusion is when one culture inflicts its culture on another and more likely then not uses its power in the army to do so. An example of this would be the Spaniards as they went to the Philippines to convert most of the Filipinos to Catholicism. 

The other type of cultural diffusion is Direct diffusion when neighboring cultures tend to interact with each other due to factors like "trade" for example. Over time their cultures start to diffuse together and create a mixture of both cultures. An example of this would be the diversification of food in the countries where the silk road passes through. 

When cultural diffusion occurs things like: Language, Dance, Music, Food, Religion, Dress, Art, Sports and many more can change. 

An example of a company whose products have diffused in many different cultures are the companies that make instant ramen. Instant ramen created in Japan has been known to be a staple of college daily food. 

Pros and Cons of Global Interaction

PROS

1. Wide range of access to products world wide. In the past ordering online was unheard off. Now it is simply part of culture.  

2. Has helped to produce greater technology. For example: Tech companies have been buying or merging together to have a bigger Research and Development department that works on future technology. 

3. Many jobs are created by Trans national Corporation. For example: Tech giant Apple has a massive factory in China which created thousands of Jobs, and has helped boost up China's economy. 

4. Allows us to meet and learn about new cultures and new languages through social net working sites. For example: Facebook has allowed us to keep in contact with our friends who have traveled around the world. These friends can give information about the culture of places they have been to. 

5. Trans National corporations keep competing with each other and therefore it causes inflation to be low.

For example: Coca Cola and Pepsi have been the biggest rivals when it comes to soda beverages, and as they continue to compete for the top spot in terms of profitability, their prices should remain low to attract more consumers. 

CONS

1. Widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Example: As corporations get bigger in developed nation they would want to move to a developing nation due to the fact that wages are lower. Therefore as they leave their develop nation they also leave their employees. As they enter the developing nation whose wages are lower these Corporations become richer. 

2. Some Trans National Corporations exploit the needs of jobs in third world countries. Example: Corporations know that people in third world countries need jobs, and they know some are desperate therefore some are given very poor working conditions. 

3. Loss of culture. Example: As the influence of the American Media continue to spread around the world, cultures can be loss due to Americanization. 

4. Globalization is also leading to the incursion of communicable diseases. Deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS are being spread through Social networking sites, or websites. 

5. Social networking sites has caused our society to become less social. For example: The phrase "Together Alone" means that we are all together in one location, but we are either on our phones, or emailing, or on social networking sites. 

Citations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJ23a7_fvQ
http://www.manufacturing.net/articles/2010/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-globalization