Scandinavian Nepali Diaspora

In connection to the world conference on global warming and climate change, we are starting a series of articles which argues that unless poverty is addressed, the discourse of climate change would be less effective.

Poverty, in Context to Global Environment: Challenge to the new generation

Poverty has a direct link to the environmental degradation or vice versa. Sachs. J (2005) has experienced and direct observed the world of poverty. He gives a live example of the country where active work force has been engulfed into HIV/AIDS, a pandemic disease all over the world. He portrays pitiful families in the villages of Malawi living to Death due to the extreme poverty. No food and money, and no minimal infra structure development; the people in the villages of Malawi are compelled embrace unwanted deaths. The country has only per capita income 180$ which doesn’t support to fight against most terrible epidemic HIV/AIDS. Drying fields and no working hands and insufficient infrastructures, people have no means to earn and enjoy the right of education and health. Extreme privatization in Education and Health has hit the poor from the neck that they cannot stand back. For example, where per capita income is less than a dollar per day, a poor hardly survives without antiretroviral medicine which cost 1$ and has to afford every day. This persisting example shows an absolute poverty trap in underdeveloped countries.