Excerpt from the speech of UN Secretary General Kofi Anan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 31, 1998. ..."The advent of a global economy may seem irresistible and inevitable. To many it has brought great riches. To others it seems exclusionary, exploitative, intrusive and even destructive. ...We must remember that globalization has not just happened; it has been the result of deliberate policy choices..." How do you look at globalization today? Kofi Anan said those words 11 years ago.
GLOBALIZATION An English PRINCESS Diana With an Egyptian Boyfriend Crashes in French Tunnel Driven in a German Car With a Dutch Engine, Driven by a dead drunk Belgian On Scottish Whiskey Followed closely by an Italian paparazzi, ON Japanese motorbike Treated by an Americano DOCTOR USING Brazilian Medicines You receive this information from a pakistani Reading on your computer that uses Taiwanese Chips, And a Korean Monitor Assembled by Bangladeshi WORKERS In a Chinese plant in Singapore Transported by pakistani truck drivers Hijacked by Indonesians Unloaded by Sicilian Longshoremen And trucked to you by Mexican border crossers
To rky, whoever came up with such magnificent concoction of possibilities, he must be quite imaginative. if i had an ad agency, i would hire him immediately.
Globalization is what got us into this economic mess in the firs place. Basically, rich corporations can move jobs to third world nations where there are not laws to protect the environment and the labor they employ.