Module 8

2.

After WWII led capitalists to avoid any return to the conditions from the Depression-era. Thanks to the Bretton Woods Conference rules were negotiated for the commercial and financial dealings among the major capitalist countries. This promoted a stable currency for the US dollar, promoted free trade, and high levels of capitalist investment. Adding on that new things were making it cheaper to transport goods which resulted in global capitalism. 

3.

It linked the world’s peoples because it accelerated the circulation of goods and skyrocketed world trading. There were some things that I saw as negatives such as exploiting people like “foreign direct investment” which took advantage of these developing countries in way of cheap labor and bad environmental regulations. This also made people from these developing countries move out to Europe and North America to escape poverty. A lot of new things were created like personal funds being transferred from international credit cards to go to national borders. 

15.

First, environmentalism in developing countries was more locally based and had fewer large national organizations. Also in these developing countries, the poor people were more involved than members of the middle class. This caused a movement because of social justice in these developing countries. Environmental activists in these countries confronted foreign mining companies from exploiting their resources. The main concern was issues of food security, health, and basic survival in these developing countries.