As global trade increases, many goods, including those we use on a daily basis, are produced in other countries and have to be transported long distances. Do the benefits of this trend outweigh the drawbacks.

Nowadays, everyday products are predominantly manufactured abroad and shipped around the globe.

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essay will outline two main reasons why

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Firstly

, international shipping is

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a widespread service amongst businesses that consumers now have the option to buy almost anything from anywhere in the world.

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means that they may not support a local high street business if they can obtain a similar item for cheaper, when made abroad.

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a negative because it encourages cheap, and even at times child, labour.

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are so popular because they sell unbelievably cheap clothing and deliver straight to your door. The ethics of these businesses have been raised on multiple news and social media platforms, but consumers still continue to support them. Even famous lawsuits alluding to

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companies having sweatshops and poor working environments are not enough of a deterrent for the average consumer. It may be argued,

however

, that

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sort of global market encourages businesses to be competitive. But morally, we must ask ourselves, at what cost?

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, carbon emissions from international deliveries provide another big disadvantage. As the infamous environmental activist Greta Turnberg will attest: ice caps are melting, the environment is being heavily polluted and the world must act now. Rather than acting now, we’re

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a blind eye to the realities of our actions.

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some goods are transported on the same aircrafts as those carrying people; the additional weight of

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items, as well as the many, many planes solely carrying businesses’ merchandise

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overall bad for the Earth. Even though

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international goods distribution could arguably be viewed as encouraging multiculturalism, as people are exposed to products from different countries,

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is not sufficient justification for these actions. The lack of support for national businesses, promotion of unethical behaviour by businesses, as well as the major carbon footprint associated with transportation of goods

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that the negatives of global goods distribution vastly outweigh the positives.