To understand how poverty came about in today’s reality, we are required to look back, at least five hundred years ago, when the Europeans adventures themselves, sailing around the globe. They hoped to find places, colonies, that they could use as means to sustain themselves, whether by exchanging goods, like they did with India, or by carelessly exploring the resources, like they did to Brazil. The creation of colonies led European nations to accumulate wealth on the expenses of the countries they were exploiting. But when independence movements started erupting around colonies, a different, yet similar systems was implemented, neocolonialism and neoliberalism, that are based on “debt repayment unfair trade and unjust taxes on their labour
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Apart from showing the social inequality, a smaller percentage of the world’s population having access to practically all the resources, this statements also challenges the environmental impacts brought by that uneven consumption. The fact that the pollution caused by 25% of the population represents nearly 70% of the total pollution means that the current way of consuming and disposing of the world’s resources is far from sustainable and not feasible to everyone. If everyone in the world consumed like an ordinary American citizen, a population part of the 25%, we would need around 6 planets to fulfills everyone’s …show more content…
An example would be situation the Kisumu region, in Kenya, where an international corporation, alongside with the government, invested on the land by building a dam on the river. The dam eventually over-flooded and, not only affected the houses of local residents but made it hard for any livestock or any vegetation to grow healthy, for instance, since their roots would rotten because of the amount of water in the soil. Another way the corporation interfered with the local environment was by using chemical through aerial spray on the plantation. This short of practice affects the insects and plants not part of the plantation and the people’s health, even causing fatality among children. In other places, like in Bolivia and Brazil, manipulating landscape came a the different cost. There, the environment was heavily impacted by silver and gold mining, where people would be forced to work under terrible conditions to strip away all resources the mountains had to
Apart from showing the social inequality, a smaller percentage of the world’s population having access to practically all the resources, this statements also challenges the environmental impacts brought by that uneven consumption. The fact that the pollution caused by 25% of the population represents nearly 70% of the total pollution means that the current way of consuming and disposing of the world’s resources is far from sustainable and not feasible to everyone. If everyone in the world consumed like an ordinary American citizen, a population part of the 25%, we would need around 6 planets to fulfills everyone’s …show more content…
An example would be situation the Kisumu region, in Kenya, where an international corporation, alongside with the government, invested on the land by building a dam on the river. The dam eventually over-flooded and, not only affected the houses of local residents but made it hard for any livestock or any vegetation to grow healthy, for instance, since their roots would rotten because of the amount of water in the soil. Another way the corporation interfered with the local environment was by using chemical through aerial spray on the plantation. This short of practice affects the insects and plants not part of the plantation and the people’s health, even causing fatality among children. In other places, like in Bolivia and Brazil, manipulating landscape came a the different cost. There, the environment was heavily impacted by silver and gold mining, where people would be forced to work under terrible conditions to strip away all resources the mountains had to