Vehicles, Aircraft, Trains, Factories, and other similar devices, use fossil fuels daily.
This is the product that the world will fight for.
It's not gold...it's black gold.
To support the tremendous need for non-renewable fossil fuels, places like Nigeria, Sudan, and Canada are responsible for supplying the world with this resource.
Canada, or more accurately the Canadian province of Alberta, is responsible for supplying oil to places like the USA, Mexico, and Canada itself. Due to the huge oil industry located in Alberta, there have been large environmental affects on many Albertan people. For example, a once small town called Fort McMurray located in northern Alberta, has grown from a town of 2,000 residents to a city of over 85,000 residents in 2006. The oil company brought good job employment which attracted people from other cities, provinces, and countries. Because of the increase in population, new houses, businesses, schools, police stations, roads, and many other needs were created for Fort McMurray. So as the oil company grew bigger, so did the towns and population grow as well.
The world's need for oil and other similar resources have affected the lives of the countries which have those resources available.
There isn't a lot that can be accomplished to preserve the environment from the giant oil companies profiting from the world's needs. However, people and organizations have been created to help preserve land that is still unpolluted.
The global need for oil has also affected the health of native Canadians. Unlike the Black Death in the 14th century that occurred because of a disease spread by rats, the native inhabitants in northern Alberta and British Columbia are suffering due to starvation and thirst.
They destroy the forests and prairies once populated by fair game.
Do you Think Shell is going green?
Oil companies pollute water which both affects people and animals.
As well as the spread of products and ideas, globalization also supports the spread of disease. This is because globalization creates easier ways of travel from one place to another. For example rats and humans on colonial ships heading for North America, carried diseases that were native to Europe. Once Native Americans came into contact with this new and unidentified disease from the colonials, they fell ill and died. This was a huge pandemic much like the Black Death.
The legacies of disease and pollution are terrible aspects of globalization.
Could anything be done to prevent the suffering of disease on our planet?
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