Globalisation

• Cosco ship is 366m long and holds 13,000 containers.
• EasyJet has turned on cities - Talihin in Estonia w/ young adults - £40pp - cheap alcohol
• A380 holds 853 passengers max. 737 can hold 215
• In 2014, 5 billion Facebook likes / year
• In 2005, 7% of Africans owned phones. 2015 = 70%
• Arab spring - Arabian countries protested for democracy and other western ideologies. Shut down internet
• Maggie Thatcher deregulated the banks - now they account for 10% of UK gdp
• Tesco had access to 75m extra customers when 10 new countries joined the EU
• China - tax incentives, cheap labour, poor working conditions Brought 500m out of poverty. Through offshoring and outsourcing
• Disney - bought Star Wars and marvel. French gov paid $2b for theme park 30,000 new jobs. China tv use espn for sport coverage
• Disney - shows like lion king and mulan
• AT Kearney index measures globalisation. amount of phones, peacekeeping forces, international agreements, amount of fdi
• North Korea - politically isolated for 70 years. No social media. No western ideas. Limited international trade
• Sahel - political parties based off ethnicity (high tension). Low fdi due to there being no market. Landlocked. Harsh climate.
• Rana plaza - Companies like primark clothes Made there. Collapsed. 1,000 dead. Bangladesh.
• iPhone - $450 a month 12hr shift. 8 people dorms. Suicide prevention.
• China - rice field size of Belgium polluted. Smog reduces life expectancy by 5 years. Cancer. 2003 - 250 cities affected by acid rain Caused economic losses of $13.3b (fishing + farming)
• China uses lots of resources. Brazil and Africa supply China now. Rainforest ruined. Oil fields built in Venezuela.
• Global shift - Leicster - 30,000 in textile. Newcastle - population decreased by 12% cheap houses. Belgrave in Leicster - unemployment rate of 6.7 %
• Detroit - white flight - 1,000,000 left - motor capital -> murder capital - spiral of decline - low aspirations etc
• Look at Mumbai yr 11 case study
• Russian oligarchs - 250b invested between 2000-2014. 10% of houses in London owned by foreign companies. High house prices
• Middle East - South East Asians - cheap labour - human trafficked - poor working conditions.
• Remittance money (key word)
• 800,000 Eastern Eu came to Uk post 2004. took undesirable jobs.
• increases westernisation - English language, LGBT Disney, tourism shows western shit, TNC have western policies (Unilever) , BBC + CNN, more sports events espn in China, blm Arab spring
• France - 40% of music on radio must be French, subsidies on French movie industry. China - great firewall of China. Nigeria - Ongoni people not happy with Shell. Protests
• Types of index: GDP - Economic sector balance - HDI - gender inequality index - environmental performance index (more pollution = development)
• Gini coefficient - number between 0 and 1 which measures inequality. 1 = high inequality.
• GinI index = A (above curve) (A+B) B = under weird curve should be given the numbers I think
• china - 2m internet police. Prision journalists. Tianmin square (1989)
• Trump - tariffs. Protectionism. 25% tariffs on steel. Tried to ban tiktok and apple watch series 9. Huawii
• Totnes- every £10 spent = £13 : £23 spent TNC v local.
• Totnes £. More Money in local business. pegged to £. Failed. Reduce plastics etc
• Skillshare - transfer skills from older generation to younger. Less reliance on premade crap
• Incredible edible. local food. Less food miles. Less plastic.
• UK produces 350m tonnes of waste / year
• Landfill releases lechates which are bad for environment