The progress of the world causes the suffering of others. My everyday life affects the people around me. The people who aren’t as fortunate. The way I contribute to carbon emission and global warming creates problems for our environment and thus the people living in it. I have the means to stay out of harm’s way. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Tsunamis. All these natural disasters. They never personally affected me because I was within the safety of my home. They destroyed people’s lives and many never had the resources to bring themselves out of the poverty these disasters brought with them. Even if I’d have been it the middle of one of these tragedies my parents would have been able to support us and get us back on track.
This means that we will not really suffer the consequences of global warming, a shocking reality which in truth is a result of the more well off parts of society. We have the means to support ourselves and consume more due to this fact. We take in more than is needed just because we have access to more than is needed. Why should the poor suffer the consequences of our sins? It doesn’t seem just that the people who are the smallest contributors to global warming must go through the worst effects of it. There is a saying, ‘You reap what you sow.’ this saying does not apply here. The rich are the ones who consume, consume, consume, yet never feel the consequences. We watch the horrible things that occur from a distance, never suffering or knowing the pain. If we are the ones reaping then why do the poor sow?
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