s importance in oxygen production, has also led to conservation. Agricultural technology has led to increased production and better use of agricultural landscapes. There is no longer the great waste that was accompanied by the earlier agricultural landscapes and systems. Therefore, technology may be the only way we can sustain the remaining ideal landscapes that exist.I believe that the continued protection of ideal landscapes will only ensue if and when the landscape in question is proved to be of importance to the humans who are threatening it. To return to our rain forest example, the only reason humans have decided to make protecting it a priority is because they have realized its long -term importance to human race as a whole. Eventually landscapes that are protected solely for the purpose of aesthetics will be displaced if the world economy deems it necessary for the continued production of goods. As far as the question, “Does the globalization of the economy contribute or detract from making the world better?”, I say it depends on your point of view. From a first world point of view I would have to say that globalization has certainly made the world a better place. I have troubles with a lot of contemporary environmentalists that cry for preservation but still enjoy all of the first world modern conveniences that are provided to them by the globalized economy. From my point of view globalization has been a great development in human history. Humans enjoy a far easier life than its counterparts who had to slave away doing manual labor a hundred or more years ago. Travel is easy, safe and relatively inexpensive. Information about all topics of life are a fast finger away with the development of computers and the internet (a phenomenon that could not exist without a globalized world I might add!). I truly believe that the overwhelming majority of first world and industrialized peoples would not give up thei...
