Read the following passage and answer the following questions-
There is a growing significance of environmental as well as resource issues in the world politics. If the various governments take steps to check environmental degradation, these issues will have political consequences. Most of them are such that no single government can address them fully. At the Rio Summit, the first world countries were pursuing a different environmental agenda than the third world countries. The Indian government is already participating in global efforts through a number of programmes. India‟s International negotiating position relies heavily on the principles of UNFCCC.
(i) How the First World countries pursued a different environmental agenda from the third world countries?
(ii) The issue of global warming has deeply affected the world. Substantiate the statement with three examples.
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Read the following passage and answer the questions below-
Globalization as a concept fundamentally deals with flows. These flows could be of various kinds- Ideas moving from one part of the world to another, capital shunted between two or more places, commodities being traded across borders, and people moving in search of better livelihoods to different parts of the world. The crucial element is the worldwide „interconnectedness‟ that is created and sustained as a consequence of these constant flows. Globalization is a multi-dimensional concept. It has political, economic and cultural manifestations and these must be adequately distinguished.
(i) “Globalization is a multi-dimensional concept”. Justify.
(ii) In Globalization, the crucial element is the „worldwide interconnectedness‟. Substantiate the statement with two suitable examples.
(iii) How the disintegration of USSR helped in spreading globalization across the world?
