Globalization brought intertwining political, economic, and to some extent social systems challenging the rigid religious and social systems and in some cases creating chaos in the midst of what was intended to be efficiency and order.
In a short span of time, in early 2011, oppression, despotism, and political dogma was faced with relentless uprising across northern Africa and various Arabian Peninsula countries. As these events were underway, natural disasters from flood in Australia to Japan’s earth quick and tsunami, South East Asia’s volcano eruptions, and Pakistan’s flood, adding to previous year’s draught in Eastern Europe, is sending commodity prices such as oil higher by about 25%, food by about 10%, while economic stagnation keeping wages relatively low.
Once again globalization is under siege—not by union members picketing their employers or anarchists disrupting global conferences but by political, social, and natural forces. As commodities such as oil becomes more rare, Indian and Chinese airline market and car market expands aggravating the shortage of oil supplies while global food shortages cannot keep up with the growth of human population. Additionally, many companies, which for decades have come to rely on just-in-time supply chain, are facing massive disruptions in their supply chain caused by the Japanese earthquake.
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