Covert 19 Pandemic Forces m h everything. An unbridled quest for profit and untainted consumerism characterized much of the worlds economy. d that is until the coronavirus hit. See it is cinemas and balls was shouted cities resembled ghost Towns National borders the closed treats of planes grounded travel as good as ceased millions around the world may see their livelihoods destroyed as usual people in poverty benefited the least from globalization of the hardest hit will the shock of the pandemic realigned priorities or where we pick up where we left off. These Old Fashioned globes in the berlin bookstore evoke a time before our planet was plunged into its Current Crisis a crisis that could well change our world in many ways. What might this mean for globalisation in cross continent or cooperation. Weve asked for people for whom globalization and its discontents are major themes of their work globalization is not to blame for the virus the euro is theres nothing like a good crisis to create opportunity for political change them back yeah we can all see now that an economy that aims above all to maximize profit is not sustainable. The 3 main scenarios have been sketched out for what might now emerge the 1st is the undoing of globalization in its present form. French president emmanuel mccaw says the cataclysm will change the nature of globalization it increased inequalities in developed countries and it was clear that this kind of globalization was reaching the end of its cycle it was undermining democracy so will this prove to be a major historical turning point similar to the fall of the berlin wall and the end of the cold war one possible response though is not with wants to see. Its for countries to seek safety in solitude and selfreliance in the process undoing international ties and trade boosting Domestic Industries to reduce reliance on Global Supply chains and just in Time Logistics and instituting large stores of key goods in preparation for the next crisis attack it is an International Network of activists who are critical of what they termed new liberal globalization they call for social ecological and democratic alternatives including fair trade rules and limits to free trade. The disaster weve seen in the provision of protective facemasks goes to show that we need more local manufacturing and local Storage Facilities so that things are really available when we need them without that not even basic emergency Protection Measures are possible. Globalization is a political agenda that seeks to reduce international interdependencies its not anti capitalist but its anti free trade it resonates with the nationalism of say u. S. President donald trump and germanys far right if tea party. The future does not belong to us the future belongs to patriots the future belongs to sovereign and independent nation to peace here give it globally globalization as we know it has failed a new worldwide Economic System is emerging based on Sovereign National economic areas the state some observers say that is rubbish and that we will eventually get back to business as usual global trade will resume and thrive vast amounts of goods will once again be zipping around the world globalization they say has increased standards of living bringing hundreds of millions out of poverty it has also proved vastly profitable for some flying around the world will again become normal every day activity Global Communication is of great benefit to humanity so why unto any or all of that i think. Were going to see a surgeon digitalisation but were not going to see a surgeon d. Globalization because we arent going to forego the cost advantages of globally distributed manufacturing and the Global Market there is no alternative. So in this scenario trade and travel will recover and thrive in compazine the globe and in any case decoupling simply cant were. In our day and age people talk a lot about decoupling they talk about the end of globalization and its really a buzzword that has very little practical meaning the internet financial flows the way supply chains are constructed its very difficult to think of a about a future where all of that is eliminated the horse to use the old american metaphor the horse is out of the barn. Market is out of National Control the National Economy is substantially worse police control. Of expertise of labor something. The German Government for its part certainly does not think globalization is in its death throes. As council riki if there is no going back from the globalization of the past 20 or 30 years its become part of our open economic and social order. Given the economic and financial cost of the crisis with debt level soaring with Environmental Protection be sacrificed in the struggle to revive economies in sociological terms the pressure to create prosperity will not diminish even though there are good ecological reasons to want to see it diminish. As for the 3rd scenario there was a lot of discussion right now about a new green deal. This does not represent a turn away from globalization. It is more a vision of how the world should choose to reorient itself particularly in the wake of the pandemic. d and create a Global Economy to benefit ordinary people. While protecting the environment and mitigating the climate crisis. Where things are in flux theres a lot of uncertainty anything could happen. That window will close you know in the next. 6 to 6 months to a year and then well be just back to wherever we re and after that period. Is the pandemic making people stop and think about what is truly important in life. If so perhaps the world will prefer global and local solidarity to consumerism competition and career ism. In discovering that Society Social relations the social contract trust among people are the biggest assets in the fight against over it the question when the dust settles is what people forget. Well some people may see the pandemic as a crisis to be resolved as quickly as possible so we can continue on our merry way as before others see it as an opportunity to rethink basic questions about the way we live and perhaps come up with something better. Cannabis is the worlds 2nd most popular drug after alcohol used by an estimated 200000000. 00 people every since study estimated the Global Market could be worth 350000000000. 00 a year that would include both illegal and illegal trade many countries have legalized Recreational Cannabis and its cultivation and substances from the plants are also being used in medicine to treat chronic pain in ass and in Cancer Therapy some research is a hopeful it could help treat 19. Many Cannabis Farmers are hoping this trend will continue including in the South African nation of the city. Farmers struggle to make a living here in the highlands of listen to where the soil is largely infertile. But its here that industrial scale farms have set up a flourishing business in cannabis. The plant thrives here thanks to the peer mountain air and clean water. All the stuff that the medic row company have to wear rubber gloves and protective clothing. This c. E. O. Under a bottom says that is crucial if they are to produce a medicinally pure product. Today we have spent 24000000. 00 on the facility. We will be doing for the business when we expand our area. Its very this is a very capital intensive industry to do it right. You need a lot of capital. Cannabis has been grown here for centuries until now on small fields like this one. This small holder found this says we should call him clement he doesnt want to reveal his real name. Like his great grandfather before him he cultivates the conventional variety of the plant that makes you hein and that remains illegal in the city. When i heard of plans to make cannabis growing illegal i thought great something everyone will profit from but no it looks like it will only benefit politicians and their friends and not the whole of society in lawsuit too. Clement is disappointed he would also like to grow Medicinal Cannabis on his field but to do that he would need a license from the government which costs almost 11000. 00 a huge amount that he could never raise. So Big Companies with capital thrive legally well smallholders continue to supply the black market. They both grow cannabis but the plants raised for medicinal purposes are of a different variety and contain only a minimal amount of the psycho active ingredient sought by drug uses t. H. C. The licensed producers have to demonstrate that that is the case in lab tests. What they do want to see a lot of in their plants is kind of a dial all c b d its anti inflammatory and cramp relieving properties are what qualify the substance as a medicine. We talked with the countrys Health Minister he conceded that since cannabis farming was legalised 3 years ago local small holders have not been among those to profit. Yours im term. To smoke. You are. Out you will be you will feel high its not a very its not a very Small Business its not just these 3 so of course most of. I would not have died myself to take it out. Clements says the government has failed people like him. That you know at this secret location he and to help his pack up his marijuana in small bags for sale theyve been raided repeatedly but avoid arrest by bribing the police claimant is tired of living this way and says he too could grow Medicinal Cannabis. But theres another problem the scene its. The seeds come from overseas and theyre denying us access to them. Its a form of oppression by. Under a bottom appreciates the frustration of small scale local farmers but says they dont have the means to become literate amid produces. He says how his factory makes medical Grade Cannabis Oil the equipment alone cost 4000000. 00 he says. At the same time but most keen to stress how industrial farms like his benefit listen to local investors hold more than 30 percent of made a grab in accordance with government stipulations whats more the company is in the process of creating a total of 3 and a half 1000 jobs jobs for people like harvest and mammoth sillies or inches that you need to see me. I used to be unemployed i was stuck at home. But since i got the job here ive been able to send my kids to school and i know i ask loads and so. Thats its a well its. Heres the lives in a Hilltop Village her life is typical for a woman in rural. Jobs are few and far between here but and she is as own situation has changed significantly since she began to work on the cannabis farm. Shes now learning english and math at a school set up by the company for its workers. That also makes it easier for her to check her childrens homework their school is also funded by medic rose the covert 19 pandemic had not yet reached africa when we were in the city. But the government did then introduce a lockdown before easing restrictions on may the 5th. As many factor of medicinal products the cannabis farm is one of the few companies that were exempted from the lockdown but staff do now have to wear protective masks. As the border was closed we were able to return to the city so under obama sent us this video he took on his smartphone. In a skype interview he said people were becoming more Health Conscious in the face of covert 19 and demand for his cannabis oil was continuing to grow. He also told us he had offered the government his help in the fight against the virus made out by the book a government. Program. Chosen to use it at their own facility the thing is i dont think they want the government to control that in themselves. Clement continues to work tearing the lock down delivering sacks of his crop to a drug dealer. To fulfill his dream of one day growing Medicinal Cannabis and selling it to a Processing Plant he would need Financial Assistance from the government. And for a green house for now its a dream that seems unlikely to come true. Were always on the lookout for delicious snacks on discovery comes from the south pacific. In the Solomon Islands most food comes straight from the sea or the land the main way of getting to and from the smaller islands is by boat so eating locally is essential that means lots of fresh fish coconuts. And hear a litany it also means mine grow beans. They grow everywhere and they form the basis of a popular snack on the island. Thats what. I was cooking up for her sisters home state business. The deli only came to call our show. How it goes like mom grew up in is that we piled on the board and then wed go to the margot and collected on the mob and after and the bag and the coupon. Kit i did like the ish and top half. And then in. Question again. This is the. Place that we want to go. She squeezes the pulp by hand changing the water 3 times until it loses its color squeezing the. Flesh about this and i will dance by to another dish ready for our call. She boys in for 10 minutes before its time to add the other ingredients they include coconut onions and chopped fish. After its cooked a bit longer on the stove the result is a rich soupy dish. One interesting thing about mongrel is that it gets they a long time if you did this month you can leave another month. That makes it a reliable source of food when other ingredients arent available. Sister hope this unique dish will attract travellers who are willing to leave the beaten truck to sample an authentic taste of the Solomon Islands. This week in global ideas we look at one of the many horrible mess is we humans have created piles of plastic trash this time in southern argentina its one of several problems penguins that face as biologists and. 500 years ago food in the magellan was the 1st european to sail around the southern tip of south america. Its an icy climate here and also home to the magellanic penguins named after the spanish explorer. And. Down here to go to do some exploring herself shes a biologist from argentina Southern Center for scientific research. She and her team make regular trips to the remote colonies of penguins here 7 in total. Were on our way to c. E. O. Hamer island a colony there has around 5000 pairs of magellanic penguins and 50 pairs of gentoo penguins we know bob or the colony has been around since the 1970 s. But we only started observing it in the ninetys. And since then its been growing there continuously and if. This season come today enabling the researchers to bring their equipment on land without any further problems. The penguins dont seem bothered by the visit is there are several species living here together on the island. Andrea ray has won an award for his insights into the impact of humans on the birds magellanic penguins dick then this burrows in the ground. This is where they lay their eggs and raise their young. But the birds very survival is influenced by human activity rising sea temperatures have changed marine food chains for the penguins it means hunting longer for food which in turn means leaving their young alone for longer and increasing their vulnerability to siegels and other predators. Southern rock her penguins are among the species hardest hit by Climate Change but its a very small types of prey such as larvae which are themselves most susceptible to changes in the temperature of the water. And so the penguins derive less energy from their food. And that has a long term impact on the population. A lot of the glass. Andrea ray and her team are installing an automatic monitor. System for the penguins they fitted some of the birds with the special chip a sensor records they movement in order to track general activity across the colony penguins do look rather helpless on land at least but theyre excellent divers and swimming some magellanic penguins make it all the way to europe and brazil covering a distance of 4000 kilometer. Winds are guardians of the ocean theyre also a gauge of how healthy they were ecosystems are. Examining their food intake how far they swim to find that food and their reproductive rate and they built to see how these species which are dependent on the ocean are fairing. Penguins go on shore to mates and raise their young and extremely sensitive phase of their lives which is under threat from growing pollution the nesting holes are increasingly filled with Plastic Waste which mainly comes from the nearby city of. 90 percent of the nests contain Plastic Waste. As do the animal stomachs and faces. The sea currents and winds carry the plastic to places you might think were untouched by human activity. 4 years ago residents of teamed up to tackle the trash situation of loss on the entire city coastline. The initiative was launched by maya mariel who was appalled by the pollution brought to this remote city by the wind and by sea currents. That you see stray dogs tearing apart the garbage looking for food and it belongs in a landfill but a lot of it ends up on streets across the city and the birds come and pick away at the rest. The ticket im in. And i thought it most notable that what weve gotten used to burying the garbage. Sometimes when the snow arrives in winter the trash is just left on the beach. And when its no melts the trash and up in the city that mean nothing a lot of. Bush ally is called the gate to the ant arctic the half a 1000000 tourists who descendents yetto del fuego every year pose a further threat to the largely untouched ecosystem. In 2005 and founded a Group Bringing together citizens initiatives and local to operate says what they want to see is better management of the Tourism Sector says the groups courtenay to sabrina. I mean theres been a rise in tourism and that i think was actually in the number of boats with tourist trip out to the scene or the canal. You want to but i think theres the improper behavior there are boats going to close to the islands and using loudspeakers in the vicinity of the animals and i think that as soon as a lower lets say the home the eye. Is putting it on tourism at one with nature tourism thats in harmony with nature is always welcome here its one of the human activity is that can help the most to conserve the environment above all so that the populations of the communities in the ecosystem remain this pristine as possible of the one thing that no one but if they know. The penguins that would bring some welcome relief and the struggle for survival here and what is called the end of the world. Thats all from us that global 3000 this week dont forget we love hearing from me and so do drop us a line to global 3000 at g. W. Dot com and visit our Facebook Page d w women until next time good bye. Environmentally conscious living. With maximum comfort. From tanzania is helping make it possible he started with sustainable ideas in his own home. Hes inspiring others to innovate and his invention school eco out for go. In 30 minutes on d w. Selling sex as a. Pink is for. 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