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– About 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic – six or more times higher than international pollution guidelines – that it can cause serious health damage, including harming their brain development.
1 November 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – “Future of the World between Globalization and Regionalization” – European Center for Peace and Development, Belgrade, 2-29 Oct 2016 –Summary:
Johan Galtung
Most states are too small given the speeds of transportation and communication–hence regionalization of neighbors with cultural similarities.
The biggest states, China-India-Russia-USA-Indonesia-Australia-Brazil, are in fact regions.
The next step, globalization, is very problematic. We have overcome geographical distance but not cultural distance.
And USA uses globalization for world hegemony financially. Better would be a North American region with Canada, for dialogue with other regions. The Rest will work on globalization, but how?
We are witnessing these years a historical transition from a world state system to a world region system. There are about 7:
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