Globalisation and its environmental dimensions

Abstract

The process of globalization divides the world in winners and losers that more often rise against the new world order, framed by this unstoppable process which nourishes relations of, only seemingly survived colonialism. For certain the globalization is, as a dominant process at the end of the 20th and beginning 21st century, present in all aspects of social life, but not with the same rate and the same consequences, not bringing the absolute benefit and it is clear that all factors of this process do not have the same value and importance in its realization. This article comprises the analysis of some aspects of the globalization and challenges that this process initiates in analyzed aspects. A relation of ecology and globalization is not always simple and unilateral. Despite of the fact that globalization affects environment, it can be determined that ecology affects the globalization too. Also, the growth and spreading of the process of economic globalization does not necessarily lead to deteriorating of the environment. .

Proces globalizacije deli svet na dobitnike i gubitnike koji sve češće ustaju protiv novog svetskog poretka, uobličenog ovim nezaustavljivim procesom, koji po njihovom shvatanju neguje odnose, samo na izgled preživelog, kolonijalizma. Ono što je sigurno, globalizacija se, kao dominantan proces kraja XX i početka XXI veka, ogleda u svim sferama društvenog života, ali ne istim tempom i sa istim posledicama, ne donosi apsolutnu dobit i jasno je da svi činioci ovog procesa nemaju istu težinu i značaj u njegovoj realizaciji. Ovaj rad obuhvata analizu pojedinih ekoloških aspekata globalizacije i izazove koje ovaj proces u tom aspektu inicira. Sam odnos ekologije, odnosno životne sredine, i globalizacije nije jednostavan i jednosmeran. Uprkos nepobitnoj činjenici da globalizacija utiče na životnu sredinu, može se tvrditi i da ekologija utiče na globalizaciju. Takođe, povećanje i širenje procesa ekonomske globalizacije sveta ne vodi nužno do pogoršanja ekološkog stanja sveta.