ENVIR0NMENT
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It is not only Greta Thunberg fighting against climate change
The most famous young activist fighting for the climate is still the Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, but is she the only person? I decided to look into this and found a long list (https://www.earthday.org/19-youth-climate-activists-you-should-follow-on-social-media/) of young activists from many countries around the world. Here are some of these young activists;
Next time I will look into some other young activists. Astrid |
The AIR POLLUTION AND DEFORESTATION
The Forrest is dying and the turtle is crying for help
This artwork was all about a turtle that didn’t have so much food to eat for dinner and when it wanted to swim in the river it didn’t have so much water. If the river is drying up then that isn’t good for the turtle because then it can die very soon. If we are not taking more care of the animals that are living under the water I hope it works that the people that do not want to take more care about the animals that are living under the water see my artwork and change their attitudes.
I also hope the people can understand that it has happened before in the past but it is getting worse now. Today it feels like many more people do not want to take more care of the animals and also do not want to take more responsibility about the animals that want also to have a nice and happy life together as a family. The people must feel the same thing that I feel about our planet I also hope it works that we all work together as a good team in peace to save our planet.
When people see my artwork I think they will feel very sad that the animals do not have so much food to eat and also they are not having so much water to drink. Maybe when they feel sad about this they can change and think that animals also should have a better and a happy life as us people so we are not making them feeling more sad as are now. Well I am saying this because I want to take more care about our environment and also I want to take care of the animals that it are not having so much food to eat. I want animals to have enough food and water to drink I also want the animals to have more trees to live in and play with other animals. Less trees mean a few animals to play and live together.
I also hope the people can understand that it has happened before in the past but it is getting worse now. Today it feels like many more people do not want to take more care of the animals and also do not want to take more responsibility about the animals that want also to have a nice and happy life together as a family. The people must feel the same thing that I feel about our planet I also hope it works that we all work together as a good team in peace to save our planet.
When people see my artwork I think they will feel very sad that the animals do not have so much food to eat and also they are not having so much water to drink. Maybe when they feel sad about this they can change and think that animals also should have a better and a happy life as us people so we are not making them feeling more sad as are now. Well I am saying this because I want to take more care about our environment and also I want to take care of the animals that it are not having so much food to eat. I want animals to have enough food and water to drink I also want the animals to have more trees to live in and play with other animals. Less trees mean a few animals to play and live together.
Connecting Paola Yang’s poem to my blog’s theme
Environmental poem by Paola Yang
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-j68kgP8U
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-j68kgP8U
My blog is about the Environment and we should not cutting down trees and we should also care about our planet more than we are doing right now. This includes cutting down trees. This poem connects to my blog because it says “forests are where animals can breed but trees are all gone because of greed” the Poet also talks about the need for people to change what they are doing right now.
Poverty, it’s causes, consequences
Poverty is the lack of basic needs in someone’s life like food, a house, clothes, education and health care.
Poverty can come suddenly to someone who has not always lived in poverty due to a number of reasons like divorce, natural disasters, loss of a job or the death of a breadwinner. For example, someone who had a good job with savings in a bank may fail to find basic needs because of a Tsunami which has destroyed all the banks houses and factories making people lose their jobs and their money.
There are some people who are born in poverty where they find poverty has been there for generations in their family. They can’t say exactly what happened for poverty to start because they found their parents already poor. It is very difficult to make life better when someone was born in poverty so they need someone else to take them and help them out of it.
Poverty has a lot of consequences to people and their society which bring more poverty again. If people are born poor they will not be able to go to their own school and their parents will not be Able to go to their own jobs for working. It will be very difficult to find basic needs like food, shelter, clothes, medical care and a good education. If children do not go to school and finish their education then it will be very hard for them to get a job and have the money they need. No job Means no money to save for what they may need in the future. When they get sick from not having access to clean water and a balanced diet they will fail to receive good medical care at the hospital if they don’t have the money.
How can we end poverty
We can end poverty by creating jobs, increasing people’s salaries, investing in education, increasing medical help and giving loans to poor families.
The government of every country needs to put more money and resources in education to allow poor children to access it. The government can support poor families by paying the school fees for their children so that when they are well educated they can have better jobs and get their families out of poverty in the future. It is important to create jobs so that when people finish school they can find work to do. The job they get should also give them good money to be able to find everything they need in their life and also to be able to take their children to good school so that they can also have a good future. Many people living in poverty do not have access to good health care like having hospitals near them with good doctors. They need to have free access to medical care with the government taking care of the medical costs. This will help more people to be in good health and be able to work and provide for their families.
It is also very important that others come to help the poor people by giving them money loans and donations and teaching them how to invest the money in a business so that they can start taking care of their families from it.
Poverty is the lack of basic needs in someone’s life like food, a house, clothes, education and health care.
Poverty can come suddenly to someone who has not always lived in poverty due to a number of reasons like divorce, natural disasters, loss of a job or the death of a breadwinner. For example, someone who had a good job with savings in a bank may fail to find basic needs because of a Tsunami which has destroyed all the banks houses and factories making people lose their jobs and their money.
There are some people who are born in poverty where they find poverty has been there for generations in their family. They can’t say exactly what happened for poverty to start because they found their parents already poor. It is very difficult to make life better when someone was born in poverty so they need someone else to take them and help them out of it.
Poverty has a lot of consequences to people and their society which bring more poverty again. If people are born poor they will not be able to go to their own school and their parents will not be Able to go to their own jobs for working. It will be very difficult to find basic needs like food, shelter, clothes, medical care and a good education. If children do not go to school and finish their education then it will be very hard for them to get a job and have the money they need. No job Means no money to save for what they may need in the future. When they get sick from not having access to clean water and a balanced diet they will fail to receive good medical care at the hospital if they don’t have the money.
How can we end poverty
We can end poverty by creating jobs, increasing people’s salaries, investing in education, increasing medical help and giving loans to poor families.
The government of every country needs to put more money and resources in education to allow poor children to access it. The government can support poor families by paying the school fees for their children so that when they are well educated they can have better jobs and get their families out of poverty in the future. It is important to create jobs so that when people finish school they can find work to do. The job they get should also give them good money to be able to find everything they need in their life and also to be able to take their children to good school so that they can also have a good future. Many people living in poverty do not have access to good health care like having hospitals near them with good doctors. They need to have free access to medical care with the government taking care of the medical costs. This will help more people to be in good health and be able to work and provide for their families.
It is also very important that others come to help the poor people by giving them money loans and donations and teaching them how to invest the money in a business so that they can start taking care of their families from it.
I made some questions that helped me to draw a link between climate change and poverty. These questions also made me wonder about some things. |
MY POVERTY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
The first picture shows a wildfire and some people trying to put it out. Wildfires are caused by hot temperatures due to changes in our climate and these have a very big impact on people living in such areas because they are forced to move to other places in search of a better and safer place to stay.
The second picture is showing drought which is caused by lack of rain in the area. The changing weather patterns make the soil too dry which makes it impossible to plant and grow food on it. The drought brings hunger to people who depend much on farming for their life.
Lastly this picture shows the effects of flooding which has become common because of climate change. Flooding causes many health problems like cholera because the water is polluted. The big problem is that people living in poverty have no access to good medical care. The other thing is that the picture is showing houses that are not good looking and not safely built which means if another disaster was to come things would get worse for these people.
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS EFFECTS ON POVERTY
I feel that climate change affects most people in poverty. For example if a tsunami happens many people whether poor or not, lose their lives and get hurt because they cannot swim. The same tsunami also causes the houses to get broken and destroyed and that can make the people who were living there move to other places in search of a safe place and shelter. In this way climate change can make people who were not poor to become poor when they lose their home. It is also important to remember that people who have already had less or lack access to basic needs may be staying in houses that are not very strongly built and the infrastructure may be poor. This can mean that if a natural disaster were to happen those houses which are not strong may be easily damaged as compared to those good houses for the rich people. As a result the poor may lose even a simple house that they were having in the beginning. Poor Rainfall and Poverty If there is little rain the food will not grow so much and that would bring hunger for the people. Many people who are living in poverty depend on farming for food and earning a living but if there is no rain they can not produce food. Climate change has caused the weather to change very much which has caused droughts in many places in the world. This means that the land is very dry and can not allow plants to grow well and if they do not grow food there will be food shortages for people. It is so sad to note that it is the people who are already in poverty that suffer most because they can not afford to buy food for their family which becomes very expensive when less is produced. How Disasters like Hurricanes Make People Lose Shelter Climate change has also brought many natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes in some parts of the world which destroyed people’s houses. This makes people not have a safe shelter to live in and we know that shelter is one of the most important basic needs of human life. When basic needs like shelter are lacking in a person's life it is said that they are poor. Climate Change and Health Climate change is also very connected to poverty in that being in poverty means that you have no access to clean water, a balanced diet and other basic needs. Climate change has brought many problems to people for example, when there is too much rain it causes floods in many places and that makes the water polluted and very harmful to health. Many people living in poverty do not have access to clean water due to these floods and since they are not able to drink clean water they get sick and they cannot afford to access medical care. Another thing is that when people are not in good health they cannot find a job and work to earn a living instead they need someone else to care for them. This means that they will continue living in poverty. The lack of food due to less rain that I mentioned earlier makes people not healthy because food shortages means that you are not eating a balanced diet and you are not getting the nutrition that your body needs to grow, fight diseases and to be strong. This shows that climate change can cause people to be poor and also those who are already poor can become more and more poor. Climate Change and Pollution Wildfires around the world caused by hot temperatures bring a lot of bad gases to the people and these gases make people sick. Hot temperatures have brought many wildfires which cause air pollution for both the rich and the poor. The health impacts are more on the poor because they can not access good medical care. The problem is that people living in poverty most of the time try to make a living from bad practices that damage our planet. For example, they cut down trees to make charcoal for them to use for cooking and also to sale to other people to make some money. The cutting down of trees is very bad for our planet because it disturbs the rainfall patterns and this in turn brings problems to the production of the food they need. What Should we do About Climate Change and Poverty We should instead of driving cars to school we should walk to our school instead of that and that would make the rich people and the poor people to make them feel much better and also our planet earth would feel happier all the time. Many people in poverty have no access to education and even if they access it they fail to progress through it this has led to them missing out on important information about climate change. Therefore, it is the duty of you and me to work together and teach these people about the effects of deforestation so that we can protect our planet. However, the people living in poverty cannot stop cutting down trees without giving them a replacement to help them find sustainable ways of cooking their food and earn a living. They need help to have better infrastructure which will help protect them from the bad effects of certain natural disasters which destroy their shelter and this can reduce the number of refugees that go to look for where to stay. The other most important thing is to remember that the effects of climate change mostly affect the poor who do not even have a lot of activities that damage our climate. According to some research the poor and developing countries emit the least pollution and are also those with the least amount of infrastructure to deal with climate impacts, John Cook (2015). So the problem is that the countries that contribute least to global warming are both the most impacted and the least able to adapt. This is really not fair at all. If those who are emitting the most greenhouse gas are the least affected by direct global warming impacts, how shall we motivate them to change? "We have the ability to end extreme poverty even in the face of climate change, but to succeed, climate considerations will need to be integrated into development work. And we will need to act fast, because as climate impacts increase, so will the difficulty and cost of eradicating poverty." –John Roome, Senior Director for Climate Change at the World Bank Group. These efforts will need to be coupled with targeted climate adaptation measures, such as protective infrastructure like dikes and drainage systems and mangrove restoration to deal with flooding, changing land-use regulations to account for sea level rise, disaster preparedness, and introduction of climate-resistant crops and livestock breeds (GFDRR, 2015). Ending the effects of climate change on poverty is not a one person’s job but we need to all work together to bring change. The people living in poverty need to be informed about climate change and how it affects them and they do not have access to this information. It is the responsibility of everyone reading this to advocate for them. If we don’t do anything about this it would become a circle meaning that more climate change will bring more poverty and more poverty will also bring more climate change. Bibliography Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). (November, 2015). Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty. World Bank Headquarters: Washington DC. Jessinia Ruff. (Jun 9, 2017). 5 ways climate change affects people living in poverty. One Day’s Wages.org John Cook (2015). How are the poor impacted by climate change? skepticalscience.com Mercy Corps. (November, 2019) The facts: How climate change affects people living in poverty. https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/climate-change-poverty |
POVERTY INTERVENTION
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families(TANF)
The TANF is a program in America which stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It gives help to families in need by giving them work to do and training them to be able to work in the future. As they are working or being trained the TANF also gives them financial help to provide for their needs. The TANF is working well and it is giving help to many people. For example, an article published in 2017 said that “there are currently about 744,000 adult beneficiaries of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program.” This means that from 2017 to 2020 the number of people benefiting from it must have increased. The program also gives most of its help to women, especially single parents. Following the Great Recession the work rate of single mothers was very low but after America recovered from it the work rate of single mothers has increased very much which is the most important goal of the TANF.
However, the TANF is a temporary assistance program meaning that it doesn’t give help for a long time to people. It is very important to remember that not everyone who was trained from it is able to find work afterwards which means that they will be suffering because they are receiving help anymore. Therefore, I think the TANF is not working well at following up those people who fail to obtain work and hold a job.
Applying the TANF to Poverty caused by Climate Change
There are some aspects of the program that I would keep the same. I would still focus more on the single parents because usually the effects of climate change lead to the loss of lives and that may be the loss of a breadwinner in the family. My intervention will also give some money to the people in the program to help them access basic needs like food and healthcare. As the people are receiving the help I will also give them training so that they can find their own jobs later. What I would change is that I would make sure that jobs are found and given to the people who were in the program so that they don’t get stranded. People do not have to search for work by themselves but the program can make sure that the work is found for them. I would also make sure that these people also receive medical assistance because people affected by natural disasters often face problems with their health and if they receive this help they will be in good health and be able to work and provide for themselves. I say this because the TANF is a temporary assistance program and it doesn’t give help for a long time to people. It is very important to remember that not everyone who was trained from it is able to find work afterwards which means that they will be suffering because they are not receiving help anymore.
I think my intervention will work because my program will train the people in poverty affected by climate change to be able to do the work available in the new place where they migrate to. Many times the effects of climate change cause people to move to other places maybe because their houses burned down because of a wildfire or maybe it got destroyed because of a tsunami. When they migrate they may not know how to do the different types of work they find there in that new place so when they are receiving some money to help them find food they will also be trained to be able to work in the new place. Also my intervention program will make sure that these people who were benefiting from it find work and are not stranded later on.
Sources
Jennifer Wolf. (Updated on April 06, 2020). Single Parenting: How TANF Can Help Families in Need. https://www.verywellfamily.com/tanf-grant-program-overview-2997412
Ron Haskins (January 3, 2017). Helping Work Reduces Poverty. National Affairs, winter 2017 issue.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families(TANF)
The TANF is a program in America which stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It gives help to families in need by giving them work to do and training them to be able to work in the future. As they are working or being trained the TANF also gives them financial help to provide for their needs. The TANF is working well and it is giving help to many people. For example, an article published in 2017 said that “there are currently about 744,000 adult beneficiaries of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program.” This means that from 2017 to 2020 the number of people benefiting from it must have increased. The program also gives most of its help to women, especially single parents. Following the Great Recession the work rate of single mothers was very low but after America recovered from it the work rate of single mothers has increased very much which is the most important goal of the TANF.
However, the TANF is a temporary assistance program meaning that it doesn’t give help for a long time to people. It is very important to remember that not everyone who was trained from it is able to find work afterwards which means that they will be suffering because they are receiving help anymore. Therefore, I think the TANF is not working well at following up those people who fail to obtain work and hold a job.
Applying the TANF to Poverty caused by Climate Change
There are some aspects of the program that I would keep the same. I would still focus more on the single parents because usually the effects of climate change lead to the loss of lives and that may be the loss of a breadwinner in the family. My intervention will also give some money to the people in the program to help them access basic needs like food and healthcare. As the people are receiving the help I will also give them training so that they can find their own jobs later. What I would change is that I would make sure that jobs are found and given to the people who were in the program so that they don’t get stranded. People do not have to search for work by themselves but the program can make sure that the work is found for them. I would also make sure that these people also receive medical assistance because people affected by natural disasters often face problems with their health and if they receive this help they will be in good health and be able to work and provide for themselves. I say this because the TANF is a temporary assistance program and it doesn’t give help for a long time to people. It is very important to remember that not everyone who was trained from it is able to find work afterwards which means that they will be suffering because they are not receiving help anymore.
I think my intervention will work because my program will train the people in poverty affected by climate change to be able to do the work available in the new place where they migrate to. Many times the effects of climate change cause people to move to other places maybe because their houses burned down because of a wildfire or maybe it got destroyed because of a tsunami. When they migrate they may not know how to do the different types of work they find there in that new place so when they are receiving some money to help them find food they will also be trained to be able to work in the new place. Also my intervention program will make sure that these people who were benefiting from it find work and are not stranded later on.
Sources
Jennifer Wolf. (Updated on April 06, 2020). Single Parenting: How TANF Can Help Families in Need. https://www.verywellfamily.com/tanf-grant-program-overview-2997412
Ron Haskins (January 3, 2017). Helping Work Reduces Poverty. National Affairs, winter 2017 issue.