Barber in his paper “Jihad vs. McWorld” talked about four imperatives when speaking of the McWorld. Between these four, he mentioned an ecological imperative. When discussing in class about the paper, we said that global warming was an example of an ecological imperative.
An ecological imperative would be for the McWorld a consequence touching the whole globe inexorably. In the paper, Barber gave some examples to illustrate this like the planet possibly being asphyxiated because the Brazilians are cutting trees in the tropical forest in order to get land for growing crops. So how is global warming relevant as an example of ecological imperative?
The issue with global warming is that it is menacing the whole planet and not just a part of the earth. The whole planet is getting hotter. To me there is not even more relevant example as this one because everywhere on the planet if you attempt for example to the ozone layer, the consequences would be worldwide. Therefore, because factories all over the world pollute the air and alter the ozone layer, the ices are melting at both hemispheres. As a matter of facts in both expressions “globalization” and “global warming” there is the same idea of something global which means that it is occurring everywhere.
An ecological imperative would be for the McWorld a consequence touching the whole globe inexorably. In the paper, Barber gave some examples to illustrate this like the planet possibly being asphyxiated because the Brazilians are cutting trees in the tropical forest in order to get land for growing crops. So how is global warming relevant as an example of ecological imperative?
The issue with global warming is that it is menacing the whole planet and not just a part of the earth. The whole planet is getting hotter. To me there is not even more relevant example as this one because everywhere on the planet if you attempt for example to the ozone layer, the consequences would be worldwide. Therefore, because factories all over the world pollute the air and alter the ozone layer, the ices are melting at both hemispheres. As a matter of facts in both expressions “globalization” and “global warming” there is the same idea of something global which means that it is occurring everywhere.
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