Poverty - a Natural Inevitable Phenomenon
“Poverty is a natural phenomenon-it cannot be eradicated”
Poverty dwells amidst the hungry, within the homeless, dealing with hardships of heat and frost. Poverty is the helplessness felt when the sick are deprived of medical care, when the society drowns deeper into the realms of illiteracy, when the fear of being unemployed forces one into illegal means like corruption. Poverty swells in the tears of the powerless old, reflected in the void eyes of the innocent childhood, trapped in the limbs of the handicapped, in the eyes, ears, voice of the blind, deaf, and dumb. Although there are many successful attempts in the significant reduction of poverty, in reality, this ‘natural occurrence’ is still a universal existence even in the world today nonetheless. Yet, poverty cannot be considered as a “natural phenomenon”. A natural phenomenon is a non-artificial event in the physical sense, and therefore not produced by humans, although it may affect humans (e.g. bacteria, aging, natural disasters). Common examples of natural phenomena include volcanic eruptions, weather, and decay. Natural phenomenon certainly aggravates poverty conditions, perhaps may even be one of the causes of the indigent situation. When struck by natural calamities or disasters like in the Tsunami and Katrina, or even the SIDR cyclone that hit Bangladesh only recently [15th November’2007]1, or even when suffering from the spread of decay ad decomposition, people are left in devastated destruction which in due time does lead to notions of poverty in terms of lack of proper shelter, food supply, medical care, protection against the atmospheric changes, and other such essential needs of present mankind. It is such adversity, not poverty itself, which can be treated as a natural phenomenon.
Poverty is one of the most persistent sides of our economic heredity, to some extent, spreading like a disease in the society, feeding on the remains. Around 30,000 people in the world die every day because they
Poverty dwells amidst the hungry, within the homeless, dealing with hardships of heat and frost. Poverty is the helplessness felt when the sick are deprived of medical care, when the society drowns deeper into the realms of illiteracy, when the fear of being unemployed forces one into illegal means like corruption. Poverty swells in the tears of the powerless old, reflected in the void eyes of the innocent childhood, trapped in the limbs of the handicapped, in the eyes, ears, voice of the blind, deaf, and dumb. Although there are many successful attempts in the significant reduction of poverty, in reality, this ‘natural occurrence’ is still a universal existence even in the world today nonetheless. Yet, poverty cannot be considered as a “natural phenomenon”. A natural phenomenon is a non-artificial event in the physical sense, and therefore not produced by humans, although it may affect humans (e.g. bacteria, aging, natural disasters). Common examples of natural phenomena include volcanic eruptions, weather, and decay. Natural phenomenon certainly aggravates poverty conditions, perhaps may even be one of the causes of the indigent situation. When struck by natural calamities or disasters like in the Tsunami and Katrina, or even the SIDR cyclone that hit Bangladesh only recently [15th November’2007]1, or even when suffering from the spread of decay ad decomposition, people are left in devastated destruction which in due time does lead to notions of poverty in terms of lack of proper shelter, food supply, medical care, protection against the atmospheric changes, and other such essential needs of present mankind. It is such adversity, not poverty itself, which can be treated as a natural phenomenon.
Poverty is one of the most persistent sides of our economic heredity, to some extent, spreading like a disease in the society, feeding on the remains. Around 30,000 people in the world die every day because they