As we live and function here in the United States, it may readily be seen that we must deal with poverty. The homeless line the streets, local welfare buildings are being mobber regularly, and unemployment agencies are constantly bustling with business. The fact is, though, that the United States, as a whole, is not a poor nation. In actuality, our country is looked to as being one of the richer ones in the world in many aspects.
Poverty contributes to the harming of nature in two ways.
For one, those who dwell in these under priveleged nations do not have the means to dispose of the waste which they create in a proper manner. All people, rich and poor alike, will do certain things which will have negative consequences for our environment, but the bottom line is that the poor cannot clean up after their wrongdoings. Second, looking upon the situation from the perspective of First World countries, as the wasts which was mentioned above is created, it is necessary to find a place where its disposal may be handled. As the poor can do nothing but leave their waste as is, the rich have the financial resources and economic power to be able to take the hazardous materials which rest in their lands and place it into others. Those who are a part of downtrodden nations, not having much money at all, take the little they are given and are left with a problem which they cannot possibly handle.