Green earth. (Data)."Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation has profound negative impacts on the natural environment," declares Citizen Works, an activist group that Ralph Nader founded in 2001. Is it true? "Measuring Globalization," a study in the January/February 2003 issue of Foreign Policy, discredits this bedrock principle of political environmentalism environmentalism, movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use. . The study--devised by the consulting firm A. T. Kearney  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . A.T. , Inc. and the Carnegie Institute for International Peace--created a Globalization Index by combining data on 13 different variables, including trade, foreign direct investment, international travel and telephone traffic, the number of Internet hosts and servers, and participation in international organizations. The authors then compared the Globalization Index with the Environmental Performance Index (EPI EPI exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. ) developed by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Established in 1994, the B>Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a joint initiative between the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Law School. and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science. The EPI ranks countries according to their present air and water quality, land protection efforts, and climate change prevention results. Contrary to the claims of Naderite environmentalists, Foreign Policy found that globalization and environmental protection go hand-in-hand: High levels of globalization correlate strongly with high levels of environmental quality. [GRAPH OMITTED] |
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