Quotes About Globalization

Pro-immigrationists seem to think that countries have a moral duty to accept not just refugees but also people from poverty-stricken lands who seek jobs and a better future.

We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—but we are still stuck with only national politics.

In 1938 humans were offered three global stories to choose from, in 1968 just two, and in 1998 a single story seemed to prevail. In 2018 we are down to zero.

military power cannot go far in the twenty-first century, and that waging a successful war means waging a limited war.

In 1938 humans were offered three global stories to choose from, in 1968 just two, in 1998 a single story seemed to prevail; in 2018 we are down to zero.

Today the main economic assets consist of technical and institutional knowledge rather than wheat fields, gold mines, or even oil fields, and you just cannot conquer knowledge through war.

Kadaise žalia ir žydra m?s? planeta pamažu tampa iš betono ir plastiko nulietu prekybos centru.

No hay contradicción entre esta globalización y el patriotismo. Porque el patriotismo no tiene que ver con odiar a los extranjeros. El patriotismo tiene que ver con cuidar bien a nuestros compatriotas. Y en el siglo XXI, con el fin de cuidar bien a nuestros compatriotas, hemos de cooperar con extranjeros. De modo que los buenos nacionalistas tienen que ser ahora globalistas.

Five modern freighters could have taken onboard all the cargo borne by the whole world's merchant fleets.5

Particularly in a xenophobic dog-eats-dog world, if even a single country chooses to pursue a high-risk, high-gain technological path, other countries will be forced to do the same, because nobody can afford to remain behind. In order to avoid such a race to the bottom, humankind will probably need some kind of global identity and loyalty.

War spreads ideas, technologies, and people far more quickly than commerce does.

Zaman alabilir ama nihayetinde Kuzey Kore, Irak ve El Salvador da Danimarka'ya ya da Iowa'ya benzeyecek.

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—but we are still stuck with only national politics.

Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to money, even people who don't know each other and don't trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively

2016 the world is dominated by the liberal package of individualism, human rights, democracy and the free market. Yet twenty-first-

A Osama bin Laden, a pesar de todo su odio a la cultura estadounidense, la religión estadounidense y la política estadounidense, le encantaban los dólares estadounidenses. ¿Cómo consiguió triunfar el dinero donde dioses y reyes fracasaron?

La red comercial global de hoy en día se basa en nuestra confianza en entidades ficticias como el dinero, los bancos y las corporaciones

A globalização tornou os habitantes de um país extremamente dependentes de mercados situados noutros pontos do mundo, mas a automatização pode desfazer grandes porções desta rede comercial, com consequências desastrosas para os elos mais fracos.

What Rwanda earned from an entire year of looting Congolese coltan, the Chinese earn in a single day of peaceful commerce.

But if both liberalism and communism are now discredited, maybe humans should abandon the very idea of a single global story? Why should Vietnamese villagers put their faith in the brainchild of a German from Trier and a Manchester industrialist? Maybe each country should adopt a different idiosyncratic path, defined by its own ancient traditions? Perhaps even Westerners should take a break from trying to run the world, and focus on their own affairs for a change?

What does the rise of Donald Trump signify? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Is God back? Is a new world war coming? Which civilization dominates the world—the West, China, Islam? Should Europe keep its doors open to immigrants? Can nationalism solve the problems of inequality and climate change? What should we do about terrorism?

Think for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world. According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.

The year 2016—marked by the Brexit vote in Britain and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States—signified the moment when this tidal wave of disillusionment reached the core liberal states of Western Europe and North America.