even the states themselves. Thus, with the "mining crisis" but also the "water
crisis" that has affected the South American continent, "indigenous" movements
have emerged to demand national development independently of foreign
transnational corporations and in a sustainable manner (Raul Zibechi 2006). In
Cochabamba, Bolivia, for example, local protests were set up after Bechtel, a US
transnational firm, privatised water in times of crisis, forcing Bolivian residents
to pay for the water they collected from their roofs (Barlow, Clarke 2004).
The integration of the countries of the South into the process of
globalisation is therefore delayed by the historical and contemporary
exploitation of their resources by the countries of the North.
Although it came later in the development of the countries of the South,
globalisation is now embedded in the objectives of all countries and is becoming
inevitable. The "Davos culture" expressed by Samuel Huntington shows how the
countries inserted in the global economy are all endowed with a global culture.
As a European student, for example, we all have computers, mobile phones and
tablets - products of globalisation. As the process of globalisation has grown and
spread to all, it must however adapt to the global problems it creates. Indeed,
global warming has increased with the increase in the production of goods and
services resulting from better economic competition, the establishment of free
trade and the increase in economies of scale due to globalisation. However,
economic competition comes at the expense of environmental protection as it
encourages large-scale production. Global warming has been denounced by
scientists around the world for the past fifty years, but many researchers show
that it is complicated for the globalisation process to stop or slow down, even if
this would allow for ecological progress. Henri Regnault explains that "if we look
at the historical temporality, we do not see how to stop the steamroller of a
scientific and technical evolution that abolishes distances to form only a world
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