The Importance Of Poverty And The Environment

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David Puerner
Laurel Hartley
Jan 21, 2015
The Choice is Ours In 2014 Pope Francis took to twitter, the social media site, with a message the world needed to hear, “Inequality is the root of all social evil.” The message might have been confusing to some, but it’s not so hard to grasp as one might think. We are virtually all impacted by social policies and attitudes that affect the way we can and cannot live our lives. Today two of the biggest threats Humanity faces is Poverty and the Environment. Dr. Abraham Maslow (a well known psychologist) and his theories, applied to individuals, focuses on levels of need. He organized an individual’s needs into categories beginning with security, food, and shelter, and ending with something he called …show more content…

According to Psychology today, “a self fulfilling prophecy is a belief that becomes true because we are acting like it already is. I look at the sciences and see a group of professionals who have lost faith in the general public. They no longer think we give a damn about the facts and the inevitable conclusion they’re all amounting up to. I look around me and I see peers who have bought into a myth that disempowers them and teaches them that their efforts and their passions regarding social change and progress are silly, misguided, and not worth their time. I look at our entertainment and see a fascination with what comes after the collapse. The Walking Dead a story about a post apocalyptic world where zombies run rampant and feed on those poor few who survive is ever popular today. At its’ heart is the possibility that Humanity deserved the destruction wrought upon it. You see this show plays on our fascination with our own demise... Will we let this vision of the future become the prophecy we see fulfilled, or can we envision something better for ourselves and the generations to …show more content…

Drastic steps need to be taken to correct these problems, and they need to happen at the same time. People need to be empowered once again like they were in the 60s and 70s, and they need to hold their governments accountable for health of their cities and states, as well as their planet. We need to believe we can make a difference once again. In order for our global society to become self actualized, or as the Anti Malthusians might say, in order for our global society to reach a point where it can meet all the demands of our currently souring population rates we need to establish a firm foot hold in the lowest rungs of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. The lowest rung calls for security, shelter, food and water. To a society, looking at a vast majority of citizens, that might mean access to food and water, access to healthcare and education, faith in our governments, the list goes on. Without certain essentials an individual may never hope to be self actualized, and without addressing these problems both nationally and globally our we cannot hope to see Humanity self actualized either. The choice is ours, and we can either fulfill the prophesy as seen by the Malthusians or the vision of the future described by the

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