If you haven't already guessed all of these quotes are about globalization and how they affect the world. quotes 1 through 5 focus on the more positive side of globalization where as 6 through 10 focus on the negatives of globalization. Most of the positive quotes about globalization focus on the fact that globalization has brought us all of this technology and the ability to communicate across countries. the negative quotes about globalization focus more on how globalization has killed many poor people and those that are still alive go deeper into poverty unable to escape.
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Should ship breaking still be a job? Ship breaking is a process of breaking down ships that are 25 to 30 years old, most ship breaking occurs in Asia. The workers earn $1.50 to $2.50 a day to break down the ships so the metal and other materials can be sold as scrap to recyclers. When the ships are broken apart hazardous materials are released into the environment making farming and fishing near the ship breaking beaches impossible. The lack of safety standards at the beaches makes this one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, average of on death per day at the beaches and 1 in 4 men die of cancer caused by workplace hazards. I think that ship breaking should still be a job, if this wasn't a job I don't know what we would do with all the ships. but if we could change the safety standards to better suit the workers then maybe we would be able to save some of the lives of the workers. Are diamonds worth it? I do not think that diamonds are worth what they are, diamonds aren't even that rare. Scientists now estimate that there is about 1 quadrillion tons of diamonds in the Earth. I can see why some people would want to buy some like they look nice maybe if their going to get married they'd want a diamond ring, but i think that it's just to expensive... for me anyway. Diamond may be the hardest material on earth but really it's just an overpriced shiny rock. If you want something that's more rare get something gold, although it will probably be more expensive Bretton Woods Conference? The Bretton Woods Conference happened in July 1944 in Bretton Woods New Hampshire U.S. This conference was sponsored by the newly founded United Nations organization. Their goal was to find a way to prevent the kind of economic disturbance that could lead to another world war. The conference was made up of 730 people representing 44 different allied nations. Through the Bretton Woods Conference came GATT or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which was signed in 1947. The goal of GATT was to gradually eliminate tariffs and trade barriers, Signatories met many times after signing to lower tariffs and make trade freer. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund was also a result of the conference. The purpose of both the WB and the IMF was to help countries get back on a stable financial footing after WWII. Although the WB and the IMF meant to do good some reports say that they actually do more harm than good. I think that they had really good intentions at the Bretton Woods Conference with the WB and the IMF but some how they manage to make some peoples life worse then it already was. It is very important to remember to take your children out of the car with you to wherever you are going especially on really. Lawmakers say more than 800 children forgotten in vehicles have died from heatstroke in the United States over the last two decades,and last year 48 died of heatstroke in cars. In the majority of those cases the adults had forgotten that the child was in there. (source) In 2016 GM introduced a system to help you to remember your child if you somehow forgot them in the car. The system is triggered by the back doors being opened at the start of the trip but not being opened when it is finished, the system does not detect if there is a child in the car but it will remind you to check if you’ve forgotten. (source)
I am honestly amazed that people can forget their own child in their own car. I have nieces and a nephew that I love very much, so I think that it would be very hard for me to forget that they were there. I also think that the system that they introduced is a very good idea to prevent the deaths of children. Air pollution is a big thing in our world today especially with all the cars producing tons of carbon dioxide each day, and the burning of fossil fuels like coal. Cows produce methane which is also very bad for the ozone layer, and cows use up a ot of the land which means more methane. The poor quality of the air is killing people a lot of them, it is estimated that the bad air resulted in 4.2 million premature deaths in 2016 (source). Air pollution can also raise the temperature, by burning fossil fuels we are trapping the sun’s heat in like a blanket thus raising the temperature. Air pollution can cost a lot as well, the world bank says “Air pollution costs the global economy more than $5 trillion annually in welfare costs.” (source).
In my opinion, pollution sucks I for one like to breath, and when that ability gets taken away people die; people don’t like to die either. It’s really good that counties are starting to look for cleaner energies, but it would have been better to start 10 or 15 years ago. Still, it’s good that we are starting now and not when it’s too late to fix the earth.
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