The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy, and land
resources has found that globalization may be decreasing, rather than increasing, the security of global
supply chains.
Countries meet their needs for goods and services through domestic production and international trade
as a result, countries place pressures on natural resources both within and beyond their borders.
This news reminds us of the principles of balance and scarcity, by quantifying the pressures that our
consumption places on water, energy and land resources in far-off corners of the world, we can also
determine how much risk is built into our interconnected world.
In reality, it is our inadequate policies and lack of evidence-based public health strategy that has gotten
us to where we are today; our immune systems are mostly responding to this virus the way we’d expect,
it is our leadership whose responses have failed.
This news is relevant to the society as it opens our eyes with the reality that virus attack weaker health
but it preys even more on other weaknesses such as inequality, division, denial, wishful thinking and
wilful ignorance. The news rang the bell of hope; anticipating solidarity, mutual accountability, revised
strategies and "tangible solutions" from the leaders of this nation.
The Philippines moved up a notch to 48th in the latest global talent ranking where the country was
shown scoring the worst performance in most subfactors related to investments and development in
the education sector.
Education is fundamental to development and growth; the human mind makes possible all development
achievements, from health advances and agricultural innovations to efficient public administration and
private sector growth.
For Philippines to finally taste rainbows and not purely storms and to reap these benefits fully, we need
to unleash the potential of our youth and there is no better tool for doing so than education.
2. Yes, this issue which deals with the management of world's resources has something to do with the
relations of Philippines with other countries. Because it is now widely known that many nations impose
demands on already stressed resources in other countries in order to satisfy their own high levels of
consumption. We, the Filipino people are also benefiting from global supply through our connection
with other states.
Over the past several decades, the worldwide economy has become highly interconnected through
globalization: it is now usual for each component of a particular product to originate from a different
country. Globalization allows companies to make their products almost anywhere in the world in order
to keep costs down.
But the increased economic activity leads to greater emissions of industrial pollutants and more
environmental degradation combined with resource depletion. The pressure on international firms to
remain competitive forces them to adopt cost-saving production techniques that can be
environmentally harmful.
However, the arguments of many with this and the reasons why we are still continually building our
relations to other states even it depletes our resources are somehow equally vital too. The rise of anti-
globalization forces also means less specialization in sectors in which countries have comparative
advantages. This can create an inefficient allocation of resources that leads to the dissipation of scarce
economic and natural resources. If every country has to produce to meet its domestic demand, in other
words, it could result in duplication in production processes and therefore an increase in local emissions.
That's why there's a need for balance and laws that will impose and highly prioritize not only the
favorable effects that we can extract from other borders but also advocacy to manage the combined
repercussions it brought for the present and future generations.
3. In what ways can the Philippines exercise and maintain sovereignty in governance and
policy making in resolving global issues in our local context?
They argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of Asian
countries in which globalization influences ‘peace and stability’ and peace and stability affects
governance, and through governance the knowledge economy. Effective national governance cannot be
achieved without effective national cooperation with its sovereignty. Besides being a manifestation of
national solidarity, national cooperation is a means to promote common interests and shared values and
to reduce the vulnerabilities generated by increased interdependence among nations.
It is indeed true that global issues require global solutions. Open innovation and collaboration across
borders are both key. When global leaders in the public and private sectors act more openly, they not
only seize huge economic opportunities but can also help society at large. But sovereignty and
independence is a major issue too. Philippines can exercise and maintain sovereignty in governance and
policy making through creating awareness and educating communities on the dire impact of global
issues to produce national integration and cooperation. It is maybe too ideal, but if the Philippines will
act as one it can produce global changes to its nation.
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4. In your opinion, will geopolitical boundaries of states still be relevant in the future?
Yes, it will still remain important even how dependent and mixed our colors with other sovereignty
already. Because borders are instruments used to mark the place on the ground where one sovereignty
ends and another begins. It is along these lines that a state has the legal right to exercise control over
the movement of goods and people to and from the sovereign territory and whose violation by outside
forces defines invasion. In addition, each nation has to define who does and doesn't belong to it. In this
regard, boundaries and borders are essential, as they allow the nation and its elected representatives to
define the precise legal status of nationhood.
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Angela Rasmussen
November 15, 2020
Our immune systems can cope with Covid-19 – it's our politicians who can't
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Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat
November 12, 2020
PH moves a notch to 48th in global talent ranking, poor education cited
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Water, Energy and Land Insecurity Made Worse by Globalized Economy
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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World may be tired, but virus ‘not tired of us’: WHO chief
November 10, 2020
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By Glynn Custred on April 1, 2003
North American Borders: Why They Matter