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POVERTY ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE BY ATRISHEKHAR -…

- - - - The answer was a resounding yes. The world thought so then. The world knows it even better now, after more than four and a half decades of experience since the Stockholm Conference.
    - - Unfortunately, poverty essentially promotes the practices that cause threat to environmental sustainability. And this makes poverty the biggest polluter because the poor do not have the resources to shift to cleaner technologies and practices
    - - After all, when survival for the day is the priority, and at times just a probability, issues like environmental sustainability and global warming become absolutely meaningless.
    - - The story is the same for many poverty stricken regions in the world.
    - - For example, for the first time in history
        ,the western european nations faced a heat wave this year as a result of global warming and the consequent climate change.
    - - The affects are to be shared by both -the poor and the prosperous , and so is the future of earth. And it goes without saying, when there is no earth to live, there is no prosperity left to be protected.
  - - - They are often plagued by ineffective governance, rendering them unable to meet their people’s basic needs for food, sanitation, health care, and education
    - - Such Fragile states can become breeding grounds for criminal activity, internal strife, or terrorist networks— and often all three simultaneously.
    - - Poor, fragile states can explode into violence or implode into collapse, imperilling their citizens, regional neighbours, and the wider world as livelihoods are crushed, investors flee, and ungoverned territories become a spawning ground for global threats like terrorism, trafficking, environmental devastation, and disease.
    - - Consequently waves of refugees, who were running for their lives, entered the developed countries like Germany, France, Italy and so on. Stuck in poverty, misery and hopelessness, some of them turned rogue and got drawn into terrorism.
    - - Hence if prosperity has to be aspired for future generations anywhere in the world, poverty needs to be alleviated everywhere in the world.
  - - - To free someone from the clutches of extreme poverty permanently, a sustained multidimensional approach is the only way out.
    - - The efforts have shown encouraging results. Statistics show that compared to 1990 , the number of people living in poverty are 35 percent less. Effectively around one billion people have been raised above poverty in one generation.
  - - - Nearly 1/2 of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than
        $1.25 a day.
      - According to UNICEF, 22000 children die everyday due to poverty. Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world, killing more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined
      - This becomes more shocking when we realise poverty is an artificially created phenomenon. Ultimately it is the result of manmade structures and systems.
    - - Oxfam estimates that it would take $60 billion annually to end extreme global poverty--that's less than 1/4 the income of the top 100 richest billionaires. Just 100 persons in 6 billion strong humanity earn four times more than what is needed to eliminate world poverty. This money is just 10 percent of annual defence budget of USA.
  - - - But this needs to change. This has to change. The sooner we realise it, the better.
        
        Because today, poverty alleviation is not a choice. It is not something that rich nations, organisations or persons need to do out of weight on moral conscience seeing the misery and poverty around.
        
        In a world where boundaries and borders have blurred, and where seemingly distant threats can dangerously
        transform into immediate problems, the fight against global poverty has become a fight of necessity—not simply because personal morality demands it, but because global security and prosperity does as well.
    - - " There is no plan B, Because there is no planet B."