When in conflict, the UN should prioritize global poverty reduction over environmental protections

We will be using NFL rules. (NFL Rules - Round 1 a Case, Round 2 Question and answer, Round 3 Rebutal, Round 4 question and answer, Round 5 Summery and final focas) everything else it pretty much free rain. Good luck... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dom Helda Camara said "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why poor have no food, they call me a communist." Poverty is more important then environmental problems because it's something we are facing here and now not some hypothetical issue that may happen or may not happen. We have to focus on poverty first because if we don't it doesn't matter even if we do try to make green jobs or save the environment because the people that we would need to fill the positions in that job would all be dead from poverty. Our first argument is that Poverty Trumps over environmental problems because we do not focus on poverty first we would be letting millions die for no cause at all. If people live in poverty then they can't supply basic needs to help them survive in the world, if they can not get basic needs such as food and water then they will die. According to the UNICEF 25,000 kids die a day, A DAY, that means 9,125,000 kids die in a year. That does not include the death rate for adults. 10.6 million Died in 2003 from poverty before they reached the age of 5 (that's the same as the children population in France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. Diseases are another thing that contributes to deaths among people in poverty. 350-500 million cases of malaria alone are reported a year, with over a million fatalities. Malaria can easily be prevented by a vaccine, but people in poverty cant afford the vaccine, endangering the people around them. 2.2 million Children die each year because they are not immunized. Our second argument is that poverty is a huge issues much bigger then environmental issues. Global Issues states that there are 2.2 billion kids in the world; 1 billion of them live in poverty (that's 1 for every 2 Children). 640 million don't that adequate shelter (1 in 3), 400 million are with out access to safe water (1 in 5), and 270 million have no access to heath services (1 in 7). With no access to health services people in poverty are putting the other people around them at risk, for example if a child in poverty as Aid's if he does not have access to heath services they have a better chance of not knowing they have it, that gives them a higher risk of dyeing from the dieses(3 million died in 2004 from Aids/Hivs), or giving it to another person that they may have intercourse with because if they live in poverty they more then likely don't have the money to go get protection. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century not knowing how to read or write. 72 million children of primary school age do not attend any school.. This is why we need to help them. We need to help poverty come to an end or in the end there will be such a big gab between the rich and the poor that this issue with poverty will not be able to be reversed, in 1992 there was 72 people in poverty to 1 person in wealth. For all these reasons I stand firmly resolved in today's resolution when in conflict the united nations should prorates global poverty reduction over environmental protection.