Question

Explain why inequality is an environmental problem

Answer 1

The Inequality in the society occurs due to unequal distribution of the income, pay and wealth , which leads to poorer outcome of health , education and happiness for the individuals in society. It cause environmental damages in many countries. The connection between the economic inequality and the impacts on environment can be seen in global scale as well. The research shows that most of the people live in the poorer resident facilities are more exposed to nature disasters such as floods, droughts and heat waves etc. But the higher income countries always have the better infrastructure and also well planning to survive over such environmental disasters. The poorer people within the country and global, feel the negative impact of environmental damage than their higher income counterparts. When the nature disaster occurs the higher income countries will recover very fast . For example Japan recovered from 1995 earthquake rapidly.

The inequality caused many health problems related to : not enough essential things we need for the healthy an better life such as clean water and air, good soil and the forest , safe working condition and safe and comfortable resident etc, and too much harmful things which we do not need such as , toxic chemicals, pollution, trash and junk foods. The health problems are caused due to lack of basic needs such as lean water, trees, toilets. The amount of water, minerals , trees and other natural resources are limited in earth, the number of individual using this resources increasing rapidly. the number of individual is not exactly an issue, but how these natural resources are distributed and used will be the problem. Any time one individual or the group of people may use mare than actual need of these resources or they may cause pollution, This imbalance will cause the environmental damage.