Friday, 6 September 2013

Summary on "The Double Edge of Globalization" (First Draft)

  In “The Double Edge of Globalization”, Chandra (2007) states that globalization brings about both positive and negative impacts on environment and government plays a pivotal role to raise public awareness and tackle global challenges. Expanded international trade, which contributes to urbanization and economic growth, also encourages consumption, which leads to widespread deforestation, pollution and global warming. As a result, natural catastrophe will occur, shrink the global economy and cause social disruption.  Powerful new advances in communication can instantaneously transmit information and ideas of environmental degradation to citizens of world to raise their awareness. Although many nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol, they have been inconsistent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This shows us that the international system fails to realize the importance of hyperconnected world and the unwillingness of key actors on the global scene. Therefore, governments and non-governmental organizations should work in hand to build international consensus on pollution reduction and solve the environmental problems.

7 comments:

  1. Hello,

    I like your summary, because its very detailed and covers most of the author's argument.

    I just have some minor problem in understanding the following,

    1)"As a result, natural catastrophe will occur, shrink the global economy and cause social disruption. "
    -perhaps you can phrase it like this, "This will result in shrinkage of the global economy leading to social disruption and also occurrence of natural catastrophe.

    2)"....they have been inconsistent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases."
    -their efforts in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases have been inconsistent."

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  2. Hello!

    Really appreciate you posting this really early! Also, your summary gave a good overview of the writer's arguments and points. (:

    Here are some improvements:

    "Powerful new advances in communication..."
    Maybe you rephrase it to "Advancement in communication..." to cut down on your word count.

    "Although many nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol, they have been inconsistent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases."
    You can include how some countries refuse to sign the Protocol to give a more accurate summary of what the author discussed.

    Overall, it is a well-constructed summary and great job done! See you the following week in class!

    -Gio

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    1. Thanks for your advice. I will try to improve.=)

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  3. Hi hi Foo Eng

    Really detailed summary which covers the article very well!

    Anywho below are some of my suggestions, hopefully it helps :)

    "... states that globalization brings about both positive and negative impacts on environment and government plays a pivotal role to raise public awareness and tackle global challenges." (Sentence run on, maybe separate the points of impacts and governmental role.)

    "Expanded international trade, which contributes to urbanization and economic growth, also encourages consumption, which leads to widespread deforestation, pollution and global warming." (Sentence run on or sentence structure? "Expanded international trade contributing to urbanisation, economic growth, and increased consumption, leads to a whole bunch of environmental problems." maybe this?)

    As a result, natural catastrophe will occur, shrink the global economy and cause social disruption. (As a result, natural catastrophe may occur, shrinking the global economy, and causing social disruption.)

    Powerful new advances in communication can instantaneously transmit information and ideas of environmental degradation to citizens of world to raise their awareness. (... citizens of the world... )

    Although many nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol, they have been inconsistent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. (... they have been inconsistent in the reduction of emissions...)

    Therefore, governments and non-governmental organizations should work in hand to build international consensus on pollution reduction and solve the environmental problems. (should work together to build international consensus on pollution reduction to solve the environmental problems.)

    Lewis

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    1. Thank you for pointing out my structure problems. Actually I also find that some sentences seem "weird" but I don't know how to change. Thanks=)

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