Weeks 8 Notes
Global Trade of Electronic Waste by Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins (p247-255)
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Environment impact of Globalization- focuses on electronic waste< computer, cell
phones and television sets>
Electronic waste contains toxic materials harm contact with them and people impacted by
the pollution of air, land, and water result landfills
Def. “modernity” and “progress” focuses technology and electronic gadgets
increasingly fill our offices, homes and pockets
A study “estimated 50 million metric tons of e-waste replete with toxic materials
consumer replace use electronic computer and mobile phones with latest models”
Globalization breathes new life discarded electronic devices- brought- sold at market
Elizabeth Grossman- threatens environmental and human health in Asia, Africa, and
Eastern Europe among poor people who have gone into business of making money off
discarded gadgetry
Developed countries exporting tons of electronic waste to China for inexpensive, laborintensive recycling and disposal. 2000 China environmentally unsound recycling
“ China is still getting the stuff,” Puckett say trend in China is to push ugly stuff out of
sight into the rural areas
World developing regions- China, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Eastern Europe
and Africa
“Exporting Harm” damage caused by electronic waste in China
500 companies “Exploiting low wage countries dumping ground is winning the day”
Worldwide are billion computers and 200 million in United States-world’s highest per
capita concentration of PCs- 3 billion piece consumer electronics scrapped by 2010
Houghton calls “materials brokers” and “chop shops”- if company doesn’t buy electronic
scrap or untested equipment,” rather than charging the service
U.S. Stymied as Guns Flow to Mexican Cartels by James C. Mckinley. JR. (p256-257)
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In Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, dealers can sell an unlimited number of rifles to
anyone with a driver’s license and a clean criminal record without reporting the sale to
the government…. Firearms are lightly regulated , gun smugglers can evade detection for
months or years
Sending straw buyers into American stores, cartels have stocked up on semi-automatic
AK-47 and AR-15 rifles, converting machines guns, investigators in both countries say
and .50 caliber rifles capable of stopping a car –Belgian pistols able to fire rifle rounds
penetrate body armor
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Federal agents say about 90% of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities
recovered from drug dealers last year and traced came from dealers in U.S, Texas and
Arizona
Diseases Travel fast, but so do tools to fight them by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
(p258-261)
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Threats to health are resisted by globalized disease fighters- spread of diseasesstockpile vaccines- provide information through global networks
Scott Dowell say “Things move incredibly fast; there has been an exponential rise in
the number of people who move around the world”
1980 to 2007 international air travelers are 824 million passengers per year
Nairobi center is one of six maintained by CDC around the world; Egypt, Thailand,
Kazakhstan, China and Guatemala
World Health Organization world population- 2.5 billion in 1950 more than 6 billion
now and projected to rise 9 billion by 2050
There are good and bad effects of globalization regarding the infectious disease and
what is known about the virus effects people.
Reclaiming the Commons by Naomi Klein (p328-334)
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Describes what anti-globalization movement mean? the meaning and origins of the
term anti-globalization movement is disputed amongst various socialists and economists
The anti-globalization movement can mean different thing to different people base on
their interests in a particular issue
It’s important to know from where the idea of anti-globalization comes from and how the
movement came into being
The movement name: anti corporate, anti capitalist, anti free trade, anti imperialist
Seattle unaware fact the AGM has 3 waves
1. 1st waves- back 1970, when oil prices skyrocketed due to economic downturn, which
lead to strikes, protests, and demonstrations
2. 2nd waves- erupted with end of the cold war, during early 1990s
3. 3rd waves- democracy spread like wild fire and most important wave were during 50th
anniversary of Bretton woods when the WTO emerged from the GATT. It’s lead to
many activist groups to rise and overlapping emphasis on various issue like anticapitalist groups, women’s rights groups, global inequality group and many other
People join the AGM because of similar interests and ideologies, different from the
regular mass
People attempt to show their rebellious attitude towards the big corporations and political
powers
One individual cannot tackle an entire organizations