Globalization is a widely used term that refers to the contemporary and growing interaction of wide-ranging economic and cultural processes that connect people, culture and society around the world. According to Sanabria, globalization is the flow of people, goods, investments, technology and production across national borders, along with the relationship between global economic interests and deforestation. While globalization has its benefits, it is a poorly defined term due to the ways in which international interaction has placed tremendous and harmful stress on the environment. A positive effect of globalization is that countries are advancing at a faster pace with the use of resources in industrialization. Furthermore, with the growing awareness of the harmful effects it has on the environment, new research is being developed to create safer and “greener” technologies and energy. On the other hand, globalization has led to environmental stresses such as global warming, pollution, degradation and deforestation as a result of overuse of natural resources to meet increased demand. According to Sanabria, the South American Amazon region is home to the largest area of subtropical tropical forest in the world and the main repository of plant biodiversity on the planet. Deforestation plays a significant role in global warming and has raised concerns about the potential disappearance of the Amazon rainforest. In explaining how and why deforestation occurred, Sanabria mentions the government's encouragement of migration to underpopulated tropical and subtropical regions in the early 1960s. The process of shifting cultivation, in which trees were cut down and burned to increase the fertility of the soil, was... at the heart of the paper... of education, discipline and rules. However, we have not actually improved because before oil drilling in the Amazon, indigenous people did not need anything, much less care, such as healthcare. At the hands of modern civilized peoples, the indigenous people of the Amazon have experienced a series of sufferings, and oil drilling has had a great disastrous effect on the environment. Sanabria's chapter titled "Perspectives on Globalization" and the documentary "Trinkets and Beads" provide two comparative perspectives on the negative effects of globalization. In Sanabria's text we gain secondary knowledge, while in the documentary we were able to visually see the harmful effects of deforestation. Although globalization has some benefits, it has negative effects on the environment and the individuals living in the environment, as explained in this essay.
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