He's looking at the bigger picture because people's actions do have ramifications which can cause tension between both different and similar cultures. .
The next issue Leopold tackles is the notion that big business and economics are playing a large role in destroying the environment which in turn complicates the goal of positive peace. He knows that wealth dictates leadership in America and the rest of the world, but what people must acknowledge is that fact that these "leaders" are inevitably going to fail. "In human history we have learned that the conqueror role is eventually self-defeating it is implicit in such a role that the conqueror knows it always turns out that he knows neither." (Barash, p. 133) This is important in Leopold's main point and the theme of this chapter; there are people out there who use money to attain status and make matters worse for others, but nobody has to stand by and watch it happen. People have more control over matters concerning both the environment and positive peace than they think. .
"and which we now need to cast off is the belief that economics determines all land-use An innumerable host of actions and attitudes, compromising perhaps the bulk of all land relations, is determined by the land-users tastes and predictions rather than by his purse bulk of all land relations rests on time forethought, skill and faith rather than on investments of cash" (Barash, p. 137- 138).
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Fogarty commences with a similar view of globalization and industrialization. He feels that many of the theories about maintaining peace and justice simply don't apply to modern times. In Fogarty's mind positive peace is only achievable in a society if there's a creation of trust and predictability. Rationalization (theory set forth by Weber) cannot work because it limits people's freedom and puts them in a "human cage". Cultures such as America's have too big of a gap between the classes and different racial groups for there to be a sense of predictable empathy, and the world is simply too evolved for there to be any functional homogeneity (where each person has virtually the same role in society).
