Aris S.

Gonzales
4ETHICS
1st Sem 2020-2021

Challenges
Globalization and its Ethical
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Gains of
Globalization

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What is
Globalization?

Harms of

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Globalization

Outline
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The Role of
Ethics
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“Globalization is a fact
of life. But I believe we
have underestimated
its fragility.”

—Kofi Annan (former UN

Secretary General)
1. What is
Globalization?
A Definition of
Globalization

Globalization means the speedup of

movements and exchanges (of
human beings, goods, and services,
capital, technologies or cultural
practices) all over the planet. It
promotes and increases interactions
between different regions and
populations around the globe.
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Technological
the phenomenon by which
millions of people are
interconnected thanks to the
power of the digital world via
platforms such as Facebook,
Instagram, TikTok or
Youtube.
Globalization
Cultural
refers to the interpenetration
of cultures which, as a
consequence, means nations
adopt principles, beliefs, and
costumes of other nations,
losing their unique culture to a
unique, globalized supra-
culture
Examples of
Ecological
accounts for the idea of
considering planet Earth as a
single global entity – a
common good all societies
should protect since the
weather affects everyone and
we are all protected by the
same atmosphere.
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2. Gains of
Globalization
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FREE TRADE
● Lower prices for ● INCREASED
consumers FREE MOVEMENT OF INVESTMENT
● Greater choice LABOR Investment by
of goods, e.g ● Increased labour multinational
food imports migration gives companies can play
enable a more advantages to a big role in
extensive diet. both workers and improving the
● Bigger export recipient economies of
markets for countries. developing
domestic countries.
manufacturers
3. Harms of
Globalization
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ENVIRONMENTAL
COSTS ● LESS CULTURAL
LABOR DRAIN DIVERSITY
It has increased the ●
use of non-renewable Some countries find it Globalization has
resources. difficult to hold onto led to increased
their best-skilled economic and
workers, who are cultural hegemony.
attracted by higher
wages elsewhere. *Dominance of another
group
4. The Role of
Ethics
Ethics for the
Anthropocene

An excerpt from One World

Now: The Ethics of
Globalization (2016) by Peter
Singer
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Peter Singer
An Australian ethical and
political philosopher best
known for his work
in bioethics and his role as one
of the intellectual founders of
the modern animal
rights movement.

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“Our current geological epoch is, at the time of writing, still officially known
as the Holocene. It began 11,700 years ago, and during almost all of this
period earth’s systems have been unusually stable. One thing that has not
been at all stable during this period, however, is the human population and
its impact…”
“But the impact of the more than seven billion people now present on the
earth, many of them living in industrialized economies based on energy from
fossil fuels and subsisting on diets that demand a vastly increased global
herd of methane-producing cattle, is far more all-encompassing than
anything our ancestors could achieve, extending beyond species extinction
to deforestation, desertification, pollution in the most remote regions of the
planet, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, and climate change. Hence the
suggestion, first made in the 1980s by the biologist Eugene Stoermer, that
we are living in a new epoch, the Anthropocene. The idea has slowly caught
on, and at the time of writing a formal proposal to declare this new epoch in
our planet’s history is under review by the International Commission on
Stratigraphy, the authoritative scientific body that makes such decisions.” 14
“All of this forces us to think differently about our ethics. Our moral
attitudes were formed in circumstances in which the atmosphere and
oceans seemed so limitless that we took it for granted that they were able
to absorb our wastes without noticeable ill consequences. Under such
circumstances, responsibilities and harms were generally visible and well
defined. If someone hit someone else, it was clear who had done what and
why it was wrong. Now the twin problems of the ozone hole and climate
change have revealed bizarre new ways of harming people. Before CFCs
were phased out you could, by spraying deodorant at your armpit in your
New York apartment, be contributing to skin cancer deaths many years
later in Punta Arenas, Chile. Today, by driving your car you could be
releasing carbon dioxide that is part of a causal chain leading to lethal
floods in Bangladesh.”
Time to
reflect
What ethical problem/s
brought about by globalization
do I personally see or
experience?

What steps can I take to spread

an awareness and come up
with possible soulutions?

Which ethical theory would fit

best to address my problem?
Sources:
Thanks!
https://youmatter.world/en/definition/definitions-globalization-
definition-benefits-effects-examples/
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/81/trade/costs-and-benefits-of-
globalisation/
https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/peter-singer/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Singer
Singer, Peter. One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization. 2016.