Global trade allows overpopulated countries to import what they need from other countries. Whats wrong with that?
Nothing, up to a point – the point at which resources begin to dry up. In the case of agriculture, rising global temperatures, falling water tables and soil erosion are already causing resources literally to dry up, and efforts to reduce the number of undernourished people in the world (estimated by the WHO at about 840 million) are having little success. Improved technology (for example, GM food) does not always offer a solution. In the case of non-renewable resources, and the point at which imports deprive the exporting community of essentials for themselves, in the case of renewable resources. Globalisation may hasten economic growth, but it masks underlying long-term resource problems by intensifying international competitive price pressures, which in turn increase supply and hasten exploitation and consumption of non-renewable resources. Live now, pay later. Oil is an example. New supplies from Russian fields have been providing competition with OPEC oil producers, causing downwar
