POV+-+Unequal+Resource+Distribution

P Vichaya March 21, 20008 Mr. Drahman 5/6 Unequal Resource Distribution

There are many countries all around the world where people don't have enough food to feed themselves, and some even starve to death. Although, the world has enough food to feed everyone, the problem is that food is unequally distributed all around the world. The main topics are, why some people have more to eat than others, who decides who has more access to the resources that others, and why some are more privileged than others. Everywhere in the world food is distributed unequally. There are parts of the world where some have an overwhelming amount of food where other individuals are starving to death at this second. One reason for this is because there are people with higher levels of consumption than others. The wealthier individual holds only 20% of the world population but consumes 86% of the world’s resources. Resources are getting more expensive and only the people who have money can afford it. When the rich person consumes the resources, less and less resources are available for the poor. This happens all around the world in countries like Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. As the population grows the price of rice increased. It is harder to meet everyone’s needs and expectations for resources. When the population increases, people will need more land for building houses, factories, roads, schools, and shop and for disposing of waste. When more land is used for development less and less land is used for agriculture. Only 1/8th of the land in the world is arable to farm rice and is continuing to decrease everyday. This is not enough to feed a growing population. The government and the wealthy citizens decide who has access to the resources. The farmers work there life on the fields but most of the land is own by wealthier people who only if them a small wage. That wage can go to the government as taxes. The farmers end up with hardly anything. Sometimes not enough to survive and they starve to death. The rich people were always the ones first to be fed and the farmers are always last. Although they work hard all day they still don't have enough to consume.

The world’s resources are distributed unequally. I truly believe in this because I know I have so much where there are people all around the world that are starving to death. An example would be America and undeveloped countries. Many people think that places like Bangladesh cause a lot of trouble in the world because of their overwhelming population. This is not true because the resources are unequally used all around the world. A birth in America imposes more that a hundred times more stress on the world’s resources and environment than a birth in Bangladesh. This shows that the world is unequal. America comprises about 5% of the world’s population, but uses one-third of the world’s resources. My lifestyle and consumption of my family used way more resources than any other families all around the world. The riches 1% used 35% of the world’s resources and 10% of the world uses more than 85% of the world’s resources where the bottom 40% uses less than 1% of the nation's wealth. The world is an unequal place. There is enough food to feed everyone but only the wealthy people are fully fed. Some people are born more privileged than others. The riches person in the world uses a lot more than other people than other this is a main reason why the world are unequal. One can have overwhelming amounts of food where some can be starving to death. If the world can be distributed equally no one will starve again.