Creation Values and the Environment in a Global Economy
John Tiemstra, Professor of Economics and Business
The Review of Faith and International Affairs
Fall 2005

Globalization has become a ubiquitous fact of everyday economic life. It is now difficult to find any product or service at any level of the economy that is not somehow affected by global labor, consumer, and financial markets. In the West, the consumer abundance associated with globalization can lull us into an uncritical moral passivity. We simply assume that the logic and values driving the global market are the natural order of things—and we carry on shopping. We stop taking responsibility for global economic life, and fail to even ask what globalization may be doing to the health and sustainability of God’s good creation.

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