ABSTRACT
Imperialism is also an important subject in other areas such as cultural and literary studies. Harvey argues that agricultural products from tropical and subtropical regions are of minimal significance as far as metropolitan capitalism’s survival in this age of highly developed and diversified industrial structure is concerned. The boundaries defined by the modern system of nation-states were fundamental to European colonialism and economic expansion. Imperialism was really an extension of the sovereignty of the European nation-states beyond their own boundaries. The climate change phenomenon has acquired life-threating dimensions. Excessive consumption of natural resources, especially of fossil fuels, over a very long period in the West is the major source of environmental ills. The United States and the European countries have historically been the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases. New anti-missile technologies and the plans to build low yield nuclear weapons are disturbing the equilibrium that has existed in the post-Second World War period.
