The so called 'rich countries' and climate change!

Climate change is a destructive aspect of nature. It affects many humanitarian factors some of them being poverty and the economy. Climate change has affected people all over the world, but the most affected people are the poor people or those who are living in low-income countries. Climate changes are not only responsible for sudden weather fluctuations but also subject the earth to massive problems like forest fires and floods, which cause further disturbance in livelihood and peace.

However, it is humans that mainly cause climate change. One of the main causes of climate change is greenhouse gas emission which is much commonly done by rich people. This adverse change gives the poor people additional problems to their already existing financial ones. However, we can stop climate change. Extensible use of concrete and asphalt causes this change. However, trees are the most important factor. Trees play a major part in preventing climate change and have many other benefits. This is why many world leaders today have started campaigns to plant more and more trees for the goodwill of their nation. Not only does climate change affect people but it also cripples the economy. Many countries are depleting in their wealth to fight climate change thus leading to further poverty of nations as a whole. Climate change has affected us to such an extent that one day we will not have food, because of the unseasonal rains or the lack of rains which fails crops causing a further rise in grain prices and affecting the poor further. The main after effect of climate change are floods which disproportionately impact the poor who have to struggle the most during such times.

Hence, the rich countries are those which are least affected by climate change, although the poor countries who played a negligible role in causing such problems are affected the worst and have to suffer the most. The rich countries survive such effects and further improve but instead lead to a bleak future for the low-income countries whose infrastructure is severely damaged. This also affects the life of the children in poor income countries, who are more than half of the world’s children, thus also indicating an insecure future.

-Devansh Dewra.