Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
Interpretation
Extreme poverty leads to negative social consequences such as disease and instability.
In this quote, Jeffrey Sachs highlights the detrimental effects of extreme poverty, suggesting that it creates an environment where diseases thrive, political unrest arises, and terrorism can flourish. It underscores the urgency of addressing poverty as a means to improve global health, stability, and security.
In practice
In a discussion about global issues, one might quote Sachs to emphasize the need for poverty alleviation strategies.
All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.
Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
High corruption and the influence of big business and the wealthy elite keeps the poorest Nigerians trapped in poverty and cut off from the benefits of economic growth and basic services. Some people - searching for the means to survive - became vulnerable to groups like Boko Haram.
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
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