What is the connection between Poverty and Climate Change?
The connection is, that without Social (Human) Security no one cares about the environment or the abstract problems of Climate Change.
As Bertolt Brecht said in the Three Penny Opera: “First comes the stomach and than the moral!” (My own translation, any mistakes are mine.) A stance which is understandable. If one has not enough to feed one self or the family, one does not care about anything else.
The picture was taken in Tel Aviv/Israel, which is not one of the richest countries in the world but most certainly does not belong to the poorest countries. Still poverty is also there rampant, as it is in the rich countries of Europe or USA (of which I have only heard but not experienced myself).
How much worse is the situation in the so called so called 3.World? The area with the biggest population and the highest birth rate.
As the Negative Birthrate of the developed countries indicate there is a connection between social wealth and a low birth rate.
The conclusion is that much more efforts must be made to raise the standard of living throughout the world, so people will start to care about the environment and the Climate Change even when they are now poor!
The TOTEM as a means of starting the cycle of accumulating modest wealth and at the same time protecting the environment is the right facility.
Only poverty was the topic of this article but there is an even worse situation and that is famine. People starving in a big scale is a shame for global society in the 21. century and must be abolished immediately!
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