Globalisation And
Sustainability:
- The impacts of globalisation can be reduced with: Local sourcing, Fairtrade and ethical shopping, recycling
Local
Sourcing:
- Getting foods and goods from close by
- Reduces ‘food miles’ – how far foods travel
- Therefore, less carbon dioxide and pollution is caused
- Can cause other benefits such as organic food so less chemicals are being used, less water pollution and biodiversity loss.
Fairtrade
And Ethical Shopping:
- Ensuring ‘ethics’ apply to goods and trades e.g toys made in china or agriculture produce from Africa.
- Ethical shopping means it does not exploit the workers and help them e.g good wage, decent hours, safe conditions
- Fairtrade is one type of ethical shopping as it guarantees farmers a good price and also guarantees they can sell the produce. Also helps with education and training.
Recycling:
- Reduces ecological footprint by reusing materials which you already have rather than mining more from the ground or cutting down trees
- Reduces waste to landfill, paper, plastic, metals, electronics can all be recycled
- Reduces amount of energy and pollution created by products e.g Bolton now recycles
Other
Info And Graphs:
- Lamb has the biggest food miles
- 18-34 have positive views on ethical shopping but don’t think it will make a difference.
- LEDCs still have lots of slavery e.g India has 14 million slaves, USA has 50k
- Recycling rates in England is increasing every year with peak at 50.0% in 2012/2013
- Ecological footprints in MEDCs countries are increasing but India and China have big ones because the country overall has lot of people but individuals don’t use a lot of energy.
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Positive:
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Negative:
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Local Sourcing:
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Food miles and carbon
footprint are reduced |
Produce costs more –
consumer uptake limited |
Fairtrade &
Ethical Shopping:
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Farmers in LEDCs get a
higher price for products |
Too complex, some may not
like it.
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Recycling:
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Reduces waste to landfill |
Energy consumption is still
high for processing and transport |