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“Increasingly, citizens in western North America are recognizing that the use of scarce water for irrigatingagriculture, raising livestock, and keeping lawns and golf courses green in desert environments is unsustainable.Conflicts over transporting water from wet regions to dry ones, or from sparsely inhabited areas to urban areas,ongoing and have halted some new water projects.”

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globalization is not new,”The Central Asian Silk Road connected Greece, Rome, and the Mediterranean withChina, facilitating trade over a distance of 4000 miles (6437km).• European colonization is an early form of globalization. Starting from 1500 CE, Europeancolonizers extracted resources from different parts of the world.• Use of slave labor to produce raw goods that were then processed by industries into goods formarkets in Europe and North America• Enabled industrialized production

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multinational corporations,”drive economic globalization. They havegeographically dispersed supply chains, allowing them to take advantage of differenttypes of economic activity (tertiary, primary, quaternary, etc.) and lower costs indifferent areas for particular types of labor. A multinational corporation is a businessorganization that operates extraction, production, and/or distribution facilities inmultiple countries.Among the first global economic institutions were Caribbean plantations like the oneshown here in a nineteenth-century painting of St. Croix Island. In the eighteenth century,thousands of sugar plantations in the British West Indies, subsidized by the labor ofslaves

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workers in the global economy,”Workers in the global economy are oftendependent on circumstances outside oftheir control for their subsistence.Industries, such as tourism, can provide asource of income for locals, but it isdependent on global demand and thebalance sheets of multinationalcorporations.Similarly, workers in the United States areleft unemployed when factories relocateto places with lower labor costs.Finally, illegal migrant workers, who leavetheir homes to look for new jobopportunities in other countries

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