The Global Community

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The paper explores three contemporary problems: global climate change, the peak oil problem and political struggles over energy. The paper discusses how these issues convey an increasing need for the global community's collaborative solutions. The paper points out that not only these problems but most political and environmental issues are now of a global nature.

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"In his discussion of the beginnings of globalization, economists O'Rourke and Williamson compare the creation of a global community to the creation of the world, with economists taking a more recent "big bang" view and historians taking a later "big bang" approach (109). Though the exact moment that the global community sprang into existence is unknown, it is relatively easy to trace the development of that community. In 1492, Christopher Columbus made the European world aware of the Americas and paved the way for colonization of and trade with the "new world." On April 6, 1917, the isolationist United States balked as Congress dragged American troops into Europe's "Great War." For decades, globalization may have existed, but the global community did not."

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