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Lots of reasons? A) We’ve globally lowered poverty to its lowest levels in history through trade. Pretty much every government And populace on earth would be
by parasubvert 6y ago
Lots of reasons?
A) We’ve globally lowered poverty to its lowest levels in history through trade. Pretty much every government And populace on earth would be against this policy except the absolute richest blocs (eg. The EU, elements of the USA).
B) Globalism has already been pretty curtailed by populism the past 20 years. But this includes the good parts of globalism, like coordinated carbon reductions.
C) Carbon reduction is necessarily a global coordinated solution - going local does not necessarily reduce carbon emissions, ie. oil rich nations can just locally use and trade their energy and the world isn’t any better off unless there are global treaties for trade and carbon.
D) arguably curtailing globalism would condemn a whole lot of the world into poverty or mass migration due to lack of local resource, which is almost as bad a remedy as the mass migrations that will be required later this century due to carbon emissions.
- growlist 6y ago> mass migrations that will be required later this century due to carbon emissions. ...only if we choose not to do something about controlling fertility. But in the end I strongly suspect we'll all be travelling about a lot less. Which is fine with me. Globalism is all about destroying diversity and culture, which is an awful future.
- parasubvert 6y agoI’m not so sure that’s what globalism is about? I mean, entertainment and media is a small part of the global economy dollar-wise even if it has lots of influence, local content laws as protectionism don’t harm a lot. the Japanese (Among others, say China or India) have done a pretty good job of adopting other cultures and various products without losing their uniqueness. Travel I think is a short term (2-3 year) pause.
- boo_boo 6y ago> oil rich nations can just locally use and trade their energy Sure, but the point is that local demand wouldn't be anywhere near the demand of the global market currently