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.
Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signsΒall the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.
Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care_x000D_ as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
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