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Environmental pollution has become a serious problem nowadays. With the advancement
of civilization and industrial sectors, pollution has increased to a great extent. People are
cutting trees for making brick, melting pitch, etc. for road construction. As a result, the air is
being polluted. Again various motor vehicles, powerhouses, industries, etc. emit smoke and
pollute the air. Water and soil are also polluted, Farmers use chemical fertilizers and
insecticides in their fields. They are ultimately getting mixed with water from various
sources. Besides, water vehicles and insanitary hanging latrines on rivers are also polluting
water seriously. Abandoned garbage and human waste here and there cause odor
pollution. Thus we see that all vital elements of our environment are losing their freshness
and increasingly polluting our environment. The effect of environmental pollution is very
serious. It causes different diseases destroying the ecological balance. Now people are very
concerned about the ever-increasing environmental pollution as a threat to our existence.
Environmental pollution and our survival are among the biggest challenges of future as
pollution and contamination of natural resources are adversely affecting global livelihood.
Global warming, greenhouse gas emission due to industrialization and urbanization, and
residual chemicals being applied in industries and agricultural sector are taking 100 million
lives per annum. Critical increase in health risks due to carcinogenic compounds by 20% is
another effect of living in polluted habitats. Statistics suggest that till 2050, if no sustainable
measures are taken, the world rain forests will diminish resulting into loss of biodiversity.
So, to live a happy and healthy life, environmental pollution must be checked. And for this,
effective steps should be taken immediately.
Globalisation
While advances in technology and the internationalization of the economy have led to declining
costs in transport and communication, liberalization of trade and financial regimes have
increased the flow of goods and capital across national borders. Termed `globalization', such
changes have had tremendous impact on societies and governments. To maximize advantage,
firms converge in basic structure and strategy and move production in search of cheap labour.
Such firms exploit exit options by pressurizing governments to change the regulatory framework
to lower labour costs and taxes and deregulate internal markets (Hall and Soskice, 2001). Such a
scenario has been promoted by globalization theorists `who painted a picture of a world set free
for business to serve consumers' (Hirst and Thompson, 1995, p. 421). Hollingsworth and Boyer
(1997) challenge globalists' view on the basis that its assumptions of certain conditions
presuppose `a complete globalization of factor markets; . . . the integration of product markets
that can deliver anywhere a single price for the same good once exchange rates and
transportation costs are taken into account and finally the high mobility and transferability of
modern technologies. Such an interpretation assumes that social systems of production would
then converge toward the one best way and deliver equivalent productivity levels and standards
of living' (p. 462). While complete globalization is an unrealistic goal, Hirst and Thompson
(1997) seek to distinguish it from the worldwide international economy which involves growing
interaction between national economies and nation-states as principal entities, a process assisted
by the 96 R. C. Mascarenhas, A Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Capitalism © R. C.
Mascarenhas 2002 Globalization and Its Effects on Capitalism 97 relative separation of the
domestic and international frameworks of policy-making and management of economic affairs.
Further progress towards globalization requires changes in the international economy such as
floating exchange rates which have in the past led to the abandoning of exchange controls and
the deregulation and liberalization of financial markets. Observing the increasing interaction
between national economies, it must be said that insofar as such interaction relies on political and
economic institutions to either promote or restrain them, then the problem is one of governance:
that is, the ability to develop public policies which need to be coordinated from international to
regional levels. In developing proper systems or mechanisms to cope with internationalization of
the economy, a frequent reference point is the role of the nation-state. While states may face
problems in managing the economy in the face of `globalization', so far as they remain political
communities with power to influence economic actors, states have important functions to
perform (Hirst and Thompson, 1997). To understand the difference in response between
countries to increasing globalization, it is helpful to adopt the distinction between liberal market
economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs) (Hall and Soskice, 2001). The
pressures toward liberalization and deregulation to respond to international competition is likely
to be greater in liberal market economies than in coordinated market economies. The evidence
now available from studies of comparative capitalism helps to make subtle distinctions between
different countries. In market liberal economies, apart from limited institutional capacity to cope
with increasing globalization, there is an underlying tendency for governments to encourage
liberalization and deregulation. It is less likely in coordinated market economies where
institutional capacity balances states with markets in this trend towards globalization. In the next
section of the chapter, I undertake an analysis of globalization as a product of multiple factors,
particularly political or ideological, and also as an outcome of developments in communication
and transportation technology. Following that, I examine how such globalization in the context
of technological developments has encouraged financial capitalism, a type of capitalism which
exposes the domestic economy of weaker or smaller countries to external pressures. The fourth
section discusses the implications to state capacity in terms of their autonomy and sovereignty.
The fifth section looks into recent neoliberal policies as being responsible for this transformation
in the role of the state. The last section offers a brief conclusion.
Cover Letter
29/10/20
Dear Ms. X, Having completed my first two years as an elementary teacher in Chittagong on moving to
Detroit, the role at Lonsdale Elementary would be an ideal next step in my teaching career. After
graduating with a Bachelors in Elementary Education at PTI, I subsequently received my certification to
teach preschool through fifth grade curricula. I taught a mixed-ability third-grade classroom of thirty
students and managed to lift average scores by 22% on the Milestones exams. Over the year, internal
testing averages improved by an average of one and a half grades. The measure of a teacher is helping
their kids to progress and I pride myself in assisting every individual child to improve their academic
ability and boost their confidence as a learner and as an individual. I have an interest in childhood
behavioural psychology and led a group of teachers in developing new strategies for dealing with
challenging children. I have adapted my teaching style to incorporate SMART boards and Google
classroom and find that technology gives me the time to spend with any pupils with special needs or
gifted students, who need to be stretched. I have two years of personalised lesson plans for a third-
grade classroom that I would love to share with you. Awakening interest in young students is critical for
them to embrace the fact-based learning required at that age. I also led a project of virtual teacher-
parent interactions over video-conferencing that allowed me to speak to the parents on a twice-monthly
basis as a group as with individuals as required. This parent-school partnership is so important with
young learners and I have twenty-five letters of recommendation from past parents. I would love the
chance of an interview to find out more about your school.
Sincerely,
Y
Summary
Electric trolleys or trams used to be the main mode of public transportation in the United States. However, General
Motors created a special department, and they successfully lobbyed laws and regulations. To make trams more
difficult, they later set up several companies to buy and disassemble tram systems. Some people suspect that these
parties are trying to increase car sales. . The main reason for the decline of the tram system is competition in car
perception.
Essay on Farming
Modern farming includes use of modern methods of farming. It entails the use of chemical and other toxic inputs,
which prevents plantation from pest and diseases. More often these farm inputs have an advantage to the farmer but
a threat to the environment. The farms input that degrade the quality of water includes; nutrients, sedimentation,
irrigation.
Nutrients
Manures, sludge, and chemical fertilizers contain nutrients such as phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen. Crops
residue components enhance agricultural production. These farms inputs are applied just before the rain begins. On
the onset of the rain, these minerals are carried downstream into aquatic ecosystems. This degrades the quality of
water creating a foul taste in drinking water. It endangers the aquatic life by removing oxygen out of their habitant.
Drinking water concentrated by nitrates causes methemoglobinemia (blue baby syndrome) a killer disease of infants
(Antony, 2010).
Sedimentation
Loose soils are easily transported downstream. Soil particles are often attached to other pollutants such as fertilizers,
heavy metals, and pesticides. When water runoff caries the soil particles downstream it also transits these pollutants
compromising the quality of water. In an area like this hit by earthquake, vegetation is likely destroyed thus leaving
bare land that is subjected to erosion. Suspension of silt sediments on water threatens aquatic life since it prevents
sunlight from reaching aquatic life.
Irrigation
Unregulated water used for irrigation is hazardous for the quality of aquatic life. When much water is used for
irrigation, it erodes soil fragments. The land becomes weak and prone to destruction in case of an earthquake. This
causes a reduction of fertile land for farming.
To determine the extend of pollution by agricultural activities, the following measurement techniques are used. To
measure the amount of nutrients absorbed by the water in the river clean jars are used to extract water from the river.
The water sample is taken for a laboratory test to measure the quantity of each mineral in milligrams per 1000
milliliters water.