Q4 - Deviant Globalisation (Nils Gilman) and Moral pollution vs Physical pollution

Question 1

What is Deviant Globalisation and how is it enabling individuals to benefit? (Gilman et al. 2013)

Answer 1

Deviant Globalisation is a powerful force that is growing rapidly and creating illicit markets for goods and services such as drugs, weapons, sex tourism, and organs.

• DG is enabling individuals and organised groups to build their wealth significantly in ways that many may see as immoral or creating moral pollution.

Question 2

How is Deviant Globalisation contributing to local development + example of employment in certain country + reference?

Answer 2

• Increasing employment and consumer spending through offering job opportunities and wages that can be more favourable than jobs in the traditional market (e.g. Mexican drug business employs 400,00 people) (Gilman et al. 2013).
• Very fast local development because not as greater need for qualifications, experience, and skills compared to traditional market.

Question 3

How can development through moral pollution be valuable but also harmful?

Answer 3

Valuable - Contributing to local development much more quickly than physical pollution because jobs don’t require so many skills.

• Higher wages than traditional market.

Harmful - Practices such as child sex slavery and deforestation.

• As of 2020, 60,000 murders due to Mexican drug market since 2006.

Question 4

How can development through physical pollution be valuable but also harmful?

Answer 4

Valuable - Provides the chance to upskill (e.g. universities) and gain a longer-term job that doesn’t come with the risks of the illicit market.

Harmful - Pollutes the environment by releasing harmful gases into the atmosphere and use of finite resources.

• Lower wages and longer to develop necessary skills than illicit market.