: When in conflict the United Nation should prioritize global poverty reduction over environmental p

. I strongly affirm the resolution because of, one, aiding poverty first is very critical in comparison to helping the environment, two, with a lower level of poverty, the economy will be strengthened, therefore we will have more money to focus on the environment and three, reducing global poverty is the more feasible and sensible option for the United Nation. First, aiding poverty first is very critical in comparison to helping the environment. What is poverty? Poverty is the quality or state of being poor or broke; want or shortage of means of survival; need; any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas. Wall Street Journal states on September 17th 2009, "Without additional resources directed toward critical needs, many Life Insurance Corporation's emerge from the current crisis further away from their development goals, with the impressive gains achieved in recent years largely eroded". This says that unless our charitable money is going to important needs such as poverty instead of environment, the problem will become too hard to fix. bbbThe resolution intends that we should first stabilize poverty before environment. Poverty reduction or an attempt at solving must be the first priority because according to Dr. John Breen states August 13th, 2009 25,000 kids die every day from poverty. Into yearly proportion, 18.1 million kids die every year! Comparison to environmental problems, 13 die every year. Therefore, clearly when it comes to lives of children, it is a more rational choice for the United Nation to choose poverty over environmental protection. The resolution implies that when in conflict, the United Nation should choose poverty over environmental protection. And although there are many reasons why, we need to aim for the what. The United Nation's End Poverty Association states a direct quote as this "time is short. We must seize this historic moment to act responsibly and decisively for the common good". Since this quote is informing us on poverty, the quote says that we must hurry up and end poverty before it is too late. Next, with a lower level of poverty, the economy will be strengthened; therefore we will have more money to focus on the environment. Since people are too low on income, demand has gone down significantly. Therefore, money isn't flowing through the economy in a considerable way. "A recent report suggests that a 150 billion dollars national investment in a "green economy" could not only boost the employment picture in the US, but also create new pathways out of poverty for many low-income workers in the country", a direct quote from Breaking News Article updated August 13th, 2009. However, ‘Global Issues' states that an attempt to clean up our environment "globally", will cost 9.7 trillion. Not only will prioritizing poverty help the economy and the flow of money, it will also allow the government to use tax money to help the environment. We can stabilize both by prioritizing poverty first. Therefore, that will be the more feasible option. The United Nation has strong programs to reduce poverty. This includes, for adults, there are food for work programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This will both nurse them and build infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are food for education programs, where the children are provided food when they attend school. Vinod Kholsa, Harvard Business review also states to this matter that "their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty. We have put in programs like this to help lower the number of people that die per day and so far it has been and strong success". Another program the United Nation is performing is the "2015 End Poverty" program which intends to minimize poverty to an extremely low rate by 2015. This is a 6 year project which has been put into action and the next high-level meeting will be on in September of 2010. At the rate that the project is going, it is about half way.