Throughout Ship Breaker, the story has shown what the future looks like with environmental changes. But these not only impact the environment, but poverty rates too. In the book, Reynolds didn’t even know about the sunken city, as he asked, “someone missed an entire city?”(Bacigalupi). The flooding could end the entire city, and leave impoverished people with nowhere to go, and many others homeless. This shows that others even forgot about entire cities as the environment changed for the worse. Moreover, an article about climate change and poverty states that “Disaster risk is overwhelmingly concentrated in areas of the world that are less developed and have ineffective systems of government that are slow or without the needed resources to
