Concerns over Poverty & Ecological Survival
Poverty remains a core global environmental concern affecting the way human beings use fast depleting natural resources. Human activities result in a myriad ways to affect and destabilize the environment. Poverty is a major factor in environmental politics and debate.
We all live on food, energy and other natural resources. All economic activity is based on resources from nature. Any productive activity can deplete natural resources and cause environmental stress. Throughout the world, the poorest people are increasingly clustered in ecologically fragile areas and around the edges of growing urban areas to rely more directly on their environment for survival.
All people need to work for environment protection to ensure long-term survival and well-being. Issues about environment, economics and poverty are inter-related through the way humans interact with their surroundings and with each other.
Sustainable development recognizes the interconnectedness between human beings and the environment if true environmental and social justice is to be obtained. The link between poverty and environment is on several levels – rural, urban, global and gender related for which structural adjustments are required.
Poverty and environmental degradation go hand and hand. The lower your income the higher the likelihood you will be exposed to the worst consequences of environmental degradation. Frequently hidden environmental problems have an unequivocal connection between economic and ecological survival.
We all live on food, energy and other natural resources. All economic activity is based on resources from nature. Any productive activity can deplete natural resources and cause environmental stress. Throughout the world, the poorest people are increasingly clustered in ecologically fragile areas and around the edges of growing urban areas to rely more directly on their environment for survival.
All people need to work for environment protection to ensure long-term survival and well-being. Issues about environment, economics and poverty are inter-related through the way humans interact with their surroundings and with each other.
Sustainable development recognizes the interconnectedness between human beings and the environment if true environmental and social justice is to be obtained. The link between poverty and environment is on several levels – rural, urban, global and gender related for which structural adjustments are required.
Poverty and environmental degradation go hand and hand. The lower your income the higher the likelihood you will be exposed to the worst consequences of environmental degradation. Frequently hidden environmental problems have an unequivocal connection between economic and ecological survival.