TY - JOUR AU - AMODU Ph.D, Akeem Adekunle PY - 2019/01/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Globalization and Biodiversity: Issues in Environmental Justice JF - International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention JA - Int. j. soc. sci. humanit. invent. VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18535/ijsshi/v6i1.06 UR - https://valleyinternational.net/index.php/theijsshi/article/view/1817 SP - 5239-5244 AB - <p>Contemporary environmental crisis and disruptions in global biodiversity demands critical reflections. Technically characterized the age of globalization, the emergent social order is a networked or interconnected world of fast-paced change driven by the advances in Information and Communication Technology. The phenomenon globalization births opportunities and challenges for the diverse population of the world: growth and development and, retardation and underdevelopment. With particular reference to developing nations and poor communities, globalization disrupts ecosystems and impinges on environmental rights: rights to clean water, safe air and means of livelihood, among others. It is the aim of this paper to attempt a reflective analysis of the interplay between the phenomena globalization, biodiversity and environmental justice. Review of literature on the intents and contents of globalization generates discontentment from environmental activists and conservationists (of biodiversities and natural habitats), among others. With particular reference to generally poor and economically backward developing nations and poor communities across the globe, globalization births attendant environmental concerns - global warming, loss of biodiversity and increasing loss of environmental rights., among others. Through critical reflections the paper examines the intents and contents of the interplay between the trio of globalization, biodiversity and environmental justice with a view to seeing the implications of the underpinnings of these phenomena for sustainable development. The paper raises and seeks answers to the question: how should humanity pursue a morally sound, biodiversity-just and ecologically-balanced interconnected globe? In other words, ought biodiversity be sacrificed for an interconnected and globalised society? What are the biodiversity (or environmental) imperatives for constructing and sustaining a reasonably interconnected universe where the rights of human and non-human lives shall be protected? Is it just to globalize both the costs and burdens of globalized development? What are the necessary conditions for facilitating a global society where the environments of industrialized, post-industrialized and pre-industrialized economies shall be treated with equal respect? The paper reflectively argues: existing regional and international programmatic initiatives on environmental sustainability must be critically deepened and strengthened as part of the heuristics for constructing an ecologically just, fair and balanced global society in which developing nations and poor populations experience sustainable growth and development. The paper concludes: in the emergent global society international organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF owes it to humanity to articulate, recommend and pursue contextually-determined or nation-specific policies and frameworks for global economic stability, without having to forgo the imperatives of sustainability and environmental justice.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -