World Regions On-Line (GPH 110) Assignment: Deforestation in SE Asia. Globalization and Southeast Asia Write about the following: This semester you have learned about how globalization is having an affect on different parts of the world. You have learned about how your own actions and consumption of goods and natural resources can have impacts on people and environments thousands of miles away. For this discussion consider the impact of the global demand for food, tropical wood, energy and bio-fuels on the peoples and environment of South East Asia. Based on the reading and videos: what is driving deforestation in SE Asia:
a) What is driving the problem? Who drives it? In particular, what forces are leading to expansion of palm oil and deforestation in SE Asia? Is it economics, politics, culture? All? Are these forces local? Global? Both?
b) What are the impacts of palm oil deforestation? Local and global? On people, the environment?
c) What do you think can be done to solve it? What solutions are being proposed and used to reduce deforestation and promote sustainability – especially of palm oil?
