Jerry Mander

In the following viewpoint, Jerry Mander argues that a globalized free-market economy will fail to protect global resources and will endanger the environment. Mander contends that components of a global economy—free trade, increased consumption, and the elimination of regulatory controls—threaten to wreak havoc in nature and among human beings in the form of resource depletion, species loss, maximum levels of pollution, and increased poverty. Mander is the coeditor of The Case Against the Global Economy, from which this viewpoint is excerpted.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What does Mander mean by “monoculture”?
2. In Mander’s opinion, what have the mass media failed to do?
3. What effect did the North American Free Trade Agreement have in Mexico, according to the author"

Economic globalization involves arguably the most...