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The
decentralization of many of the manufacturing plants of the leading industrial
nations to locations in other countries, and the internationalization of
banking and finance, have greatly increased worldwide air travel by business
and professional people. "In the zeal of even the most remote nations to
attract tourist dollars, pounds, marks and francs, they have steadily depleted
the number of untouched corners in the world."
The United States
probably has the most mobile population in the world. On the average, the
American family moves its place of residence every five years or so, most often
within the same city or state. This poses a particular problem for local
planning in a democracy. Local legislators must be alert to changes in their
constituents' opinions and preferences as part of the residential population in
their electoral district moves away and is replaced by new voters every year.
And the United States
receives more immigrants from more different countries than any other nation.
Aircraft, automobiles, and railroads throughout the world carry hundreds of
millions of passengers on personal and business trips every hour of every day.
In general, the movement of people reduces cultural isolation but not
necessarily personal loneliness. The more people travel, the less local and
limited their outlook and the broader their awareness--if not necessarily their
understanding--of how other people live and think. Triggered perhaps by its
adoption years ago for commercial air traffic control by all nations, English
has become the most common language for world intercommunication. When
formalized in 1992, the European Community will no longer require passport
presentation or visas among its members.
The
international movement of people and goods imposes a severe burden of
accommodation upon countries receiving large numbers of illegal immigrants.
Illegal drugs, animal and plant diseases, harmful insects, and other damaging
organisms are transported in greater quantity and more rapidly than ever
before. "The zebra mussel may be one of the greatest biological invaders
in North America, ranking up there with the
gypsy moth and the starling. . . . The most spectacular example of a whole slew
of introductions happening all over the world, the result of ballast water."
Also, modern air transportation presents very vulnerable and tempting targets
for terrorism. These developments constitute another set of problems requiring
cooperative planning and action among nations, difficult to achieve under the
most favorable circumstances.
The
decentralization of many of the manufacturing plants of the leading industrial
nations to locations in other countries, and the internationalization of
banking and finance, have greatly increased worldwide air travel by business
and professional people. "In the zeal of even the most remote nations to
attract tourist dollars, pounds, marks and francs, they have steadily depleted
the number of untouched corners in the world."
The United States
probably has the most mobile population in the world. On the average, the
American family moves its place of residence every five years or so, most often
within the same city or state. This poses a particular problem for local
planning in a democracy. Local legislators must be alert to changes in their
constituents' opinions and preferences as part of the residential population in
their electoral district moves away and is replaced by new voters every year.
And the United States
receives more immigrants from more different countries than any other nation.
Aircraft, automobiles, and railroads throughout the world carry hundreds of
millions of passengers on personal and business trips every hour of every day.
In general, the movement of people reduces cultural isolation but not
necessarily personal loneliness. The more people travel, the less local and
limited their outlook and the broader their awareness--if not necessarily their
understanding--of how other people live and think. Triggered perhaps by its
adoption years ago for commercial air traffic control by all nations, English
has become the most common language for world intercommunication. When
formalized in 1992, the European Community will no longer require passport
presentation or visas among its members.
The
international movement of people and goods imposes a severe burden of
accommodation upon countries receiving large numbers of illegal immigrants.
Illegal drugs, animal and plant diseases, harmful insects, and other damaging
organisms are transported in greater quantity and more rapidly than ever
before. "The zebra mussel may be one of the greatest biological invaders
in North America, ranking up there with the
gypsy moth and the starling. . . . The most spectacular example of a whole slew
of introductions happening all over the world, the result of ballast water."
Also, modern air transportation presents very vulnerable and tempting targets
for terrorism. These developments constitute another set of problems requiring
cooperative planning and action among nations, difficult to achieve under the
most favorable circumstances.
