Borderless Society
The Impact of a Borderless Society
Because of technology and the way in which society has evolved, people currently live in a world where there are virtually no geographic boundaries (Time, 2006). Goods and services can be transmitted anywhere, and people from all over the world can talk to one another via the internet and cell phones quickly and easily in real time. Even the food that is consumed by most people comes from places far away from them (Kloppenburg, et al., 1996). They have fresh fruit in cold weather areas of the United States in December, for example, and that fruit has to come from somewhere else. It is not possible to grow peaches in South Dakota in January, so there is no way that fruit is local. It had to be grown somewhere warm, picked, packed up, and shipped elsewhere. While there is nothing actually wrong with that per se, it does have impacts on the economy and the planet. These are all important to consider, and they will be addressed here. There are many requirements to get something from point A to point B, but the person who picks up an apple in Sioux Falls, or Minneapolis, or New York in December does not generally think much about where that apple came from and the journey it undertook to get there.
The global market comes with economic and ecological impacts that are both positive and negative, as there are pros and cons to everything in life. When purchasing goods for consumption, there are questions should be asked, such as:
How much fuel was spent transporting these products across the ocean?
Were any pesticides used?
If so, was it done in a sustainable fashion?
Were forests cleared to make room for grazing herds or larger agricultural fields?
These are the kinds of questions a person should be asking.
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