Ekc Changes Over Time

Despite growing awareness of the importance of a healthy environment and successes in pollution reduction, even a cursory summary shows that things have mostly gone from bad to worse worldwide. Let’s look at the problems by category.

As the world looks on, people start to realize that the problem of environmental pollution is a global

Pollution has become a heated issue in recent years. The destruction of the environment along with serious health problems are the eventual effects. The extensive use and availability of automobiles, tremendous amounts of production in the booming economy and the constant increase in demand for energy, can be held responsible.

(Kerin, Hartley, & Rudelius, 2010). These trends normally consist of five sources, social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces. My intention in this essay is to focus on one; the economic environmental force. I will discuss how the current state of the economy will impact completing an environmental scan. In order to evaluate how the economy will impact the completion of an environmental scan, it is essential to cover the concerns that affect the economic aspect whether people want to believe

Throughout chapter 2 and 3, Schor condemns the notion of BAU growth and a higher GDP. She presents an “Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint, and Biocapacity” on page 60, and breaks down the basis of the “Environmental Kuznet Curve (EKC)” on page 73-75. Through the analysis of these figures, she

In this paper, I will be outlining the costs and benefits of social and technological fixes, and then I will be assessing the use of social and technological fixes of air pollution through the use of automobiles.

Developing countries tend to have “the most fragile environments” (Baker 197) which is due to the flow of resources dictated by the core. The core, taking advantage of the developmental level developing countries are on, exploit their lack of laws restraining harm to the environment, setting up factories causing even more environmental damage. Thus when comparing the environmental status of a developed country to a developing country there are major differences. These differences are the interaction of the people with the environment, in terms of needs, and the number of factories profiteering from the use and exploitation of natural resources. When this difference is identified then it is easier to assess not only the source but also to create laws prohibiting this exploitation and constructing programs to reverse environmental damages to specific circumstances, helping developing countries to move forward on the developmental scale instead of backwards. If this is taken into account then why is the source causing environmental damage, the core, not stopped? This is due to the dominant ideology stating that with infinite economic growth, eventually the sustainability of the environment will be achieved. The developing countries reinforces this by inviting and encouraging organizations to base their factories in their country which has immediate results, creating a smoke screen

Global environment readily impacts businesses all over the world, as any change originating in one country can affect several others. Such examples include the use of

The growing support by governments across the globe for environmentally friendly vehicles in form of exemptions from duties & other support.

Other studies have been completed that suggest evidence against an Environmental Kuznets Curve. It is safe to say that a nation with environmental regulations is a nation that is more developed and has higher income per capita, such that they can spare growth for protection of the environment. A nation that is less developed can’t make the sacrifice for the protection of the environment and must focus solely on economic growth.

While industrialization has been strongly associated with greenhouse gas emissions, it is premature, however, to conclude that economic growth is the independent factor responsible to climate change. Neumayer (1998) contended that there is no sound scientific evidence documenting consequences of economic development on the environmental degradation in the long term (p. 4). There is also no linear association between economic growth and environmental deterioration, as maintained by Ferguson et al. (1996, p. 28) that the existing evidence “cannot be used to justify a view that economic growth (…) will automatically be good or bad for the environment” (cited in Neumayer 1998, p. 16).

Globalization, government, trade and transport, and environmental decay issues are not easy to come by and can't fix in one day, they take time and effort but the environment requires it. "There can be little doubt that the world is getting warmer. The best scientific evidence from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests that the mean global surface temperature has increased by up to 0.6° Centigrade in the past 100 years but anecdotal evidence of change is even stronger". Untimely what else is it going to take for a change until its too late, We know that the atmosphere is increasing in global temperatures and we are overlooking the facts that the climate is shifting, these evidence is here and globalization is not going to slow down. The international progress needs to step it up, we need better global governance to manage globalization and global environment this is what it's coming down to. Extending new goals and creating innovation of sustainable developments that's what will be the cure for the connection of globalization and the environment.

Environmental can includes the natural resources, concern in this area is shortage of raw material and increased pollution.

With the development of the global economy, the interaction between environment and companies became more important, therefore, throughout macro environment analysis, which includes political, economic, social, environment, legal and technology (PESTEL) that provides an indispensable part in the comprehensive list to understand opportunities and threats on the businesses (Searle and Barbuto, 2010). In this industry, political, economy and technology would mainly influence the strategies, thus

Globalization have some positive impacts on the environment to some extent but there are still some crucial negative impacts of globalization in play. The negative impacts are mainly export-orientated* destruction on the environment whilst the positive impacts are increase awareness and multinational corporations’ research into eco-friendly technology.