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We are now in a new global age, living through the first financial crisis and the first resources' crisis of globalisation.
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The speaker describes the present as a new worldwide period shaped by two major problems: a financial crisis and a crisis involving resources. Calling them the “first” crises of globalisation presents them as new kinds of challenges arising within a globally connected system.
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