Ukraine might also believe that the global economic crisis will replace flat "globalization" with lumpy "regionalization," and Ukraine should throw in its lot with Russia as it seeks to consolidate "its" region.
Rabbi Lerner invites you to join the Network of Spiritual Progressives at www.spiritualprogressives.org/covenant, and then to get active in spreading a revolutionary consciousness for replacing the globalization of selfishness and materialism (a.k.a. global capitalism) with the globalization of generosity and bulding The Caring Society: Caring for Each Other and Caring For the Earth.
Economically, colonialism and imperialism was replaced by globalization.
Nowhere do I say, or imply, that globalization will replace religion.
Globalization eventually reached Southeast Asia in the 1980s, driving farmers to fell peat forest trees for cash and replace the swamps with palm oil plantations.
The merger of globalization and I.T. is driving huge productivity gains, especially in recessionary times, where employers are finding it easier, cheaper and more necessary than ever to replace labor with machines, computers, robots and talented foreign workers.
Lastly, some sceptics, as if to reinforce Bello's point, have presented a 'post-globalist' challenge to globalization, by suggesting that globalization represents a dying phase in human history that is 'unexpectedly over [ 14]' and that globalization has been replaced with a new era of reinvigorated nationalism and religious fundamentalism [ 10].
Americans, whether they live in big cities, suburban towns or rural areas, need jobs, and when those jobs are eliminated (for whatever reasons — technological advances, globalization) without being replaced, the national economy is guaranteed at some point to hit a wall.
But in recent years, Germany has been struggling to overhaul its inflexible economy, while the French have better mastered the challenge of globalization and all but replaced the Germans as the engines of European growth.
Long-distance commuting and globalization in this vision become replaced by more locally embedded activities demanding much more concentrated urban development.
