Global Resources
Little did we know but the amount we use also affects other people. 20% of the world’s population use 80% of the world’s resources while the other 80% use what is left. This seems like a very uneven distribution considering that only 20% of the world gets most of the worlds resources. This cannot only affect the rich but also poor individuals, communities and countries:
Individuals
Individuals: With limited education, poor families and individuals start off on the back and get into a cycle of poverty. They are unable to go to school if the parents and government cant afford to pay for good teachers or even learning facilities. This then ends with child labour and a large uneducated population. Statistics show that, although literacy rates have greatly improved in Africa over the last few decades, approximately 40% of Africans over the age of 15, and 50% of women above the age of 25 are illiterate, and also that 33 million primary school-aged children in Sub-Saharan Africa do not go to school aswell.
Individuals
Individuals: With limited education, poor families and individuals start off on the back and get into a cycle of poverty. They are unable to go to school if the parents and government cant afford to pay for good teachers or even learning facilities. This then ends with child labour and a large uneducated population. Statistics show that, although literacy rates have greatly improved in Africa over the last few decades, approximately 40% of Africans over the age of 15, and 50% of women above the age of 25 are illiterate, and also that 33 million primary school-aged children in Sub-Saharan Africa do not go to school aswell.
Community
Communities: Communities with good, arable lands without erosion will have better crops and healthier stock animals that they can sell or eat. Communities without this have the opposite. It becomes easier for the people of that community to get access to fresh food and clean water. This helps the community become wealthier and much more hygenic.
Countries
Countries: In developed countries people have access to a higher quality and standard of health care, education and food and water. In places such as Africa however, very few people have access to such a high standard of medicine and health care, making malnutrition a constant problem. The lack of clean water and other basic necessities, disease and conflicts between governments, survival is very difficult on this continent.