DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT: NEW AND OLD CHALLENGES

Briefly, this article discuss the problems about the social, political and economic tendencies brought by globalization which are new, but at the same time they bring some tragedies for development. That’s why it becomes a challenge for the people to respond in an innovative way, which may not always come true, but they may pave the way for the discussion about the tragedies of development, now called globalization. It is the case of the environment, which is analyzed in this article. The conclusion is not that optimistic, although it shows that the development of globalization is a double-edged sword that is under the criticism of our modern history.