Globalization of the Natural Environment Chapter 6 Lecture 1

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Globalization of the Natural EnvironmentChapter
6 Lecture 1
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• When did you first become aware of
  environmentalism?

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• When did you first become aware of population
  growth as an issue for our times?

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Quality of Life in the Global Village

• 60 PEOPLE WOULD CONTROL HALF THE TOTAL INCOME
• 500 PEOPLE WOULD BE HUNGRY
• 600 PEOPLE WOULD LIVE IN SHACKS
• 700 PEOPLE WOULD BE ILLITERATE
• World Development Forum

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Globalization of the Natural Environment Concerns

• Use of natural resources
• Globalization of disease
• Natural disasters
• Growing population
• Growing consumption

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Use of Natural Resources

• Global commons
• air, water, atmosphere, space
• Species
• Land and resources of the earth such as oil or
  coal

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Global Diseases

• AIDS, SARS, flu
• Tuberculosis
• Malaria dengue fever West Nile, Ebola
• Childhood diseases, e.g., measles, pertussis

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Natural Disasters

• Floods
• Earthquakes
• Hurricanes
• Extreme heat or cold
• Volcanos

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Global Pressures on the Natural Environment

• Growing world population, especially in
  developing economies
• Stresses the carrying capacity of the earth
• Increased consumption
• Stimulated by desire more than need
• Causes urbanization
• Results in diseases of affluence
• Industrialization

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Earth is a Closed System

• Two quite different visions emerge when examining
  natural resources
• each has
• different implications for businesses

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From the Boom Vision of the Future

• Business as usual
• Because growth occurs with
• Stable population growth
• New technologies

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The Doom Vision of the Future

• Global disaster
• Disappearing forests and land resource
  degradation, weather changes spread of disease
• Growing population, sense of inequity leading to
  terrorism, immigration

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Sustainable Development

• The middle position between Boom/Doom
• Defined as development that ensures a viable
  future for others

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Sustainable Development

• Resolve tensions between consumption and growth
• Poor nations should not adopt development models
  of the richer nations
• Richer nations must alter lifestyles
• Income maximization must be revised to favor
  human opportunity

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Business and Sustainable Development

• entirely eliminate waste from industrial
  production
• change from an economy based on carbon to one
  based on hydrogen and sunshine
• reverse the pattern of production and
  consumption (Hawken, 1993)

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Motivations for Businesses to be Environmentally
Responsive

• Its the right thing to do
• Cost reductions
• Profit objectives
• Loss prevention
• External pressures

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External Pressures

• Local/National activities such as protests, laws
• IGOs regional and multilateral
• EU
• Over 150 world environmental treaties
• NGOs
• Greenpeace, Oxfam, ZPG, Friends of the Earth
• Consumers

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Business Activities/Programs with Environmental
Impact

• Reduction of use
• Recycling and reuse
• Remanufacturing
• Voluntary compliance with global standards
• ISO 14000
• Participation in global groups
• CERES
• Global Compact
• World Summit

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Consumer Activities

• Green consumption
• Recycle/reuse
• Socially responsible investing
• Consume less
• NGO/government activism

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Its Our Shared Earth How do We Preserve it?

• Lets look at how one nation is doing this to
  assess
• Tradition in each sector (business, government,
  civil society)
• Changes that occurred in each sector