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7. [By “there is no turning back” after globalization, the writer means that]
advances in technology, combined with more open policies have already
created an interconnected world.
Globalization, for one, has increased the sense of insecurity. Natural and
man made disasters, including forest fires, earthquakes, big industrial
accidents and various transport calamities, have added to the feeling of
being under siege. According to a joint study by Poland's center for
Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and B.T.Collins, a
management consultancy firm, growing globalization coincided with an
increased frequency of both man made and natural disasters.
Part of this fear is irrational. After all, earthquakes are not a result of the
rise in free trade. What has changed is that telecommunications and
media coverage has now ensured that such disasters are reported from
the remotest corners.
And yet at the face of such dangers, for most people in rich countries, life
has become much safer in a number of important ways. Over the past
century, life expectancy has risen by fifteen years. The environment and
the workplace has become less hazardous, democracy has spread. Wars
in rich countries have become a remote possibility. Even the threat of
terrorism has become less of a probability, in countries like Scotland,
Italy, or Poland.
So it wont be fair to say that life has become riskier, but some risks have
become smaller, others have shifted to different people, and new ones
have burgeoned to take their place.
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