The document discusses several key aspects of an increasingly globalized world: 1) It describes an interdependent global economy where developments in one region can impact others, and highlights differences between developed and developing economies. 2) It provides examples of major economic organizations that promote regional cooperation and trade such as the EU, NAFTA, OAS, and ASEAN. 3) It outlines several major global problems including environmental issues like pollution and global warming, terrorism, poverty, and health challenges exacerbated by growing populations and uneven access to resources. 4) It discusses modern global revolutions in agriculture and technology and their mixed impacts, as well as challenges currently facing regions like Africa and Latin America.

1. A GLOBALIZED WORLD

2. INTERDEPENDENT GLOBAL ECONOMY
Developed: Developing:
Interdependent: what happens in one part of the
world has an effect on other areas
•Countries work together for the benefit of all
•Dependence on
agricultural production
•Low standard of living
•Lack of technology
•Modern agriculture and
industry
•Advanced Technology
•Strong educational
system

3. ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
European Union (EU) North Atlantic Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)
Organization of American States
(OAS)
Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN)
Expanded free trade by
ending tariffs
25 member states
Euro is common currency
Free trade between Canada,
U.S. and Mexico (1990)
Lower trade barriers
Encourage foreign investment
Formed to strengthen
democracy, promote human
rights & confront problems
(poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs,
corruption)
Western Hemisphere (U.S.,
Canada)
Formed in 1967
Coordinates policies among
member nations (trade &
agriculture)
Example of regional cooperation

4. GLOBAL PROBLEMS: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
 Pollution:
 contamination of the environment, including air,
water, and soil
 Acid Rain:
 rains falls through air that is contaminated by
pollution
 Global Warming:
 gradual rise in the temperature of the earth
(Greenhouse Effect)
 Deforestation:
 destruction of forests
 Desertification:
 change of arable (useable) land into desert land
(example: Sahara Desert in Africa)
 Nuclear proliferation:
 spread of nuclear energy/weapons (example:
Chernobyl, India & Pakistan, North Korea, Iran)

5. GLOBAL PROBLEMS: TERRORISM
The deliberate use of unpredictable
violence, especially against
civilians, to gain revenge or
achieve political goals.
Usually used by groups that do not
have military power
Recent Examples:
 9/11 attacks (conflict between
extreme traditionalists and western
societies)
 disputes between nationalist
groups over homeland (Palestine
& Israel)
 domestic conflict

6. GLOBAL PROBLEMS: POVERTY
 Result of urbanization and overpopulation (lack of food
and resources)
 Shantytowns: areas of makeshift shacks that lack
sewer systems, electricity, and other basic services

7. GLOBAL PROBLEMS: HEALTH/MEDICINE
 People living longer: infant mortality rates , quality of
life
 Antibiotics
 Vaccines
 Transplants
 Laser surgery
 Challenges:
 Genetic Engineering
 New Epidemics: AIDS, SARS
 Rich countries have medical supplies, poor countries do not

8. MODERN GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS
Green Revolution
**INCREASING THE FOOD
SUPPLY**
Irrigation
Machinery
Fertilizer & Pesticides
New foods
Positive: food production;
develops new food products
Negative: depends on rainfall;
costly chemicals; small farmers
lose job
Computer Revolution
(Information revolution)
**GREAT INCREASE IN THE USE
OF COMPUTERS**
Internet; Social Media
Literacy
Positive: creates new jobs; links
people, businesses, nations;
makes more information available
Negative: expensive (only some
people can afford it); widens gap
between global North and South

9. AFRICA TODAY
 African countries gained independence after WWII
 Dependent on Europe for imports/manufactured goods
 Obstacles to progress:
 Population and poverty
 Political problems
 Economic dependence (on West)
 Land and climate
 Economic policies
 Ethnic tension & Nationalism
 Rwandan genocide, Darfur, Congo, Central African Republic

10. LATIN AMERICA TODAY
Cash-crop economies unstable; dependent
on West
Argentina – democracy
Nicaragua – Sandinistas & Contras
Mexico – gap between rich & poor, social
classes, population and poverty, urban
growth
OAS (Organization of American States)
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Agreement)