1. Culture and Globalization (2)
Lesson 12

2. Five points about language
Language and globalization
Some languages are increasingly used in international communication, other lose prominence
What is a language? Babel myth and vernacular practices:
1) Number of languages decreasing
2) Migration patterns
3) Foreign language learning and tourism
4) Internet
5) International Scientific Publications
Five points about language

3. Future of global speaking
Hypotheses?
1) Global significance of some languages and decline of the others
2) Multiplication of languages in the future
3) english as global lingua franca
As a matter of fact, official languages are shrinking in numbers but how do we count them?
Future of global speaking

4. Global Environment Globalization and the Environment:
In many ways globalization means environmental degradation:
Over-exploitation of nature
More people on earth
Technology and mobility
Pollution
Quality of Life
Structural changes for technological, economic and political innovations changed the interactive process. Introducing new trends. What is the nature of this trends.
Global Environment

5. Two major concerns: uncontrolled population growth and consumption patterns
Leading to:
Climate change
Loss of bio-diversity
Trans-boundary pollution
Food insecurity and food safety
GMO
Waste, Industrial accidents, Warfare
Debate the issue. Dangers of concentration of readership on fewer outlets? Can economic competition change the situation? Local monopoly more dangerous than world monopoly? Some countries have witnessed an increase in the range of newspapers (post-soviet)
What comes ?

6. Global sustainability
Why is it a global issue?
Does not depend on narrow local factor but on global patterns
Territory, consuming patterns, population, technology
Sustainability: Time, Space and Culture
Role of International Treaties and NGOs
Global sustainability