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Old 12-21-2004, 10:10 AM   #113
iamthewalrus109
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It's all about resources

Bruce has a point on Northern peoples. With the diaspora of the human race from warmer regions of the world to colder regions, the quest for resources has driven tension between peoples. Peoples in northern climates have tended to develop more technologies and industries to support life in regions that at best, may have only seasonal agricultural harvests. With the spread of humanity to almost all regions of the world, regionalism has become an issue. Herein lies a major paradox for the concept of globalism.
According to Montisque, regions have certain characteristics that filter to the inhabitants of these regions. Each region has it's pros and cons, including some regions that have only cons. In many instances man has made previously useless tracts of land valuble due to ingenity, progress, and technology. For example, many semi-artic regions and colder temperate regions host industry. Here only man made structures and devices can make these regions thrive and give way to development and settlement. With this in mind, these developments do not supply all that is needed for survial. Large foodstuffs, and other resources from more temperate areas are necessary for these settlements to persist. Accordingly, in many cases certain fuels only found in certain parts of the earth can maintaing the technologies that these settelment subsist on. It's a recipe for disaster when you throw in global capitalism. There are regions that strife other regions on there own products and agricultural goods for there own well being. Local workers and economies that create the goods get very little of what they create. Although the province of global capitalism is world wide, non of the parts of the sum are ever truly equal, or recieve equal treatment. This is where trouble arises. Mix this with information and communication exchange, and resentment breeds conflict and hatred. It's a reciipe for disaster, and has the world teterng on destruction.

-Walrus
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