Green earth.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Data - Globalization and the environment - Brief Article

"Globalization has profound negative impacts on the natural environment," declares Citizen Works, an activist group that Ralph Nader founded in 2001. Is it true?

"Measuring Globalization," a study in the January/February 2003 issue of Foreign Policy, discredits this bedrock principle of political environmentalism. The study--devised by the consulting firm A. T. Kearney, Inc. and the Carnegie Institute for International Peace--created a Globalization Index by combining data on 13 different variables, including trade, foreign direct investment, international travel and telephone traffic, the number of Internet hosts and servers, and participation in international organizations. The authors then compared the Globalization Index with the Environmental...