Environmental Impacts

Globalization has brought many positive impacts with it such as; a diverse workforce, benefits of outsourcing, improving working conditions and standards in third world countries and improving technology. Although this is all true the negative impacts have also made an effect on our earth.The major effect that has come from globalization is the impact on our environment. This includes; deforestation, water and air pollution, climate change and much more.

When companies decide to expand there production and offices to other countries the space and resources they consume enlarge there ecological footprint. Countries that have cheaper labor also tend not have environmental protections put into place to limit companies. Companies that set up offices or production plants need the space to make them and deforestation is the cause of this to make more room. The land and houses around these production plants become so infested with co2 emissions and smog that the area is damaged beyond repair.

Also companies that need to send over workers or supplies impact the environment because they do so on a regular basis. This is the key problem of expanding so far away, although it may be convenient for good cheap labor to expose ourselves to more ideas and new innovations, it comes at a destructive cost.