This photo shows an assembly line in China. It is a symbol of globalization. As a developing country, China had focused on its economic for over the past 40 years. Aware of the growing population, It is unacceptable to not find ways to help the poor of the 1.5 billion population. The overly populated country's labor is so cheap that attract most of western companies to settle their factories in China, which define globalization that it is a trend of world becoming more interconnected. We often may bought a car with part made by different countries. It is the cheap labor that attracted western companies, but is it fair for the Chinese people to accept low payment and long working hours? I think it is the only ways for China to incrementally improve its citizens living standard. It is a process that developed countries such as the United States and Britain had already went through. "For the last two decades, cities in the developing world have been growing by about three million people per week.49 That is equivalent to adding one more Seattle to the planet every day. Asia is only about 40% urban today, but by 2050 that number will top 70% in China, with over one billion new city slickers in that country alone. Already, places like Chongqing, Xiamen, and Shenzhen are growing more than 10% annually." (World in 2050, p. 31,32)
Is climate change inevitable? I don't think so. It is caused by what we had done. Researcher said the earth would be an icebox if there are no greenhouse gases; however, when first person on earth died from heat wave, the globe began to be aware about the global warming and climate change issues.( World in 2050, p.26) In this picture,tires stacked up as mountains. Tires are unhealthy to the earth, which means the earth is hard to digest tires. It will cause greenhouse gas emission and also, if not recycled, it will occupy a lot of spaces stack up mountains like the picture above.
Developed countries have most of the resources in the whole world. But, what about developing countries? They extract resources for the developed countries but what do they get? As population in developed countries consumes significant amount of resources and produce significant amount of waste, population in developing countries do not consume and produce that much of resources and waste. However, what if the population in developing countries do? Those the population in developed countries willingly give up the limited natural resource? I don't think so. The world would be overwhelmed with waste that will affect climate change. I sure hope not. The world you just created would be frightening. Global consumption would rise elevenfold. It would be as if the world’s population suddenly went from under 7 billion today to 72 billion. Where would all that meat, fish, water, energy, plastic, metal, and wood come from? (World in 2050, p 23) Are we selfish or just trying to save the world?