Upping the Stakes/Technologies of Globalization/The Efficiency Dilemma

Upping the Stakes - The solution doesn't lie in reducing individual consumption. Individuals consume no more than a quarter of the world's consumption. Industrial economy and corporations are responsible  for the vast majority of the goods that are consumed and wasted in the world. Hence, reducing the day to day individual consumption is not really going to make a significant difference. Even though the change can be significant if us as individual don't support such economy. Then, the corporations will be forced to take immediate action. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YxMFdyDqtMSmBXW8mgxS8iTSdPofYuU_ZrCI5V8zKco/edit

Technologies of Globalization - Technologies offer both advantages and disadvantages. But throughout history there has been a tendency to market only the positive aspects of them. In this excerpt the author shows the negative effects it has created in the modern globalized world that ultimately has been created by these technologies. The essential underlying principle is that they have created a monoculture that disfavors democracy and diversity.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8Rp9RR_3nOaOEpXc2lnVUJBODQ/edit 

The Efficiency Dilemma - Efficiency is seen as the most efficient and cost-free method to accelerate the transition to a green-energy economy. It is a fact that things have become more efficient and cheaper through time making them more accessible to people in all scales of society. So in reality we are increasing our dependency to energy when we make our technologies more efficient. As a consequence, we try to find ways to leverage our energy consumption that at the end makes us even more dependent on them. Even though we need to decrease our dependence to fossil fuels, we really have o think if making things more efficient is really our best solution. 
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8Rp9RR_3nOaRjlydlZFUDZJMjg/edit