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1)Industrialization :Use harmful chemmicals such as mercury and XML
2)Mining
3) Fuel burning

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1) dissabilities
2) cancer
3) chronic lung disease
4) effects child's ability to learn

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Kuznets curve graphs the hypothesis that as an economy develops, market forces first increase and then decrease economic inequality.

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Country's environment tends to degrade as the country grows richer, but after certain level of economic development, the quality of environments begins to improve

Countries need to reach particular average income level to allocate the resourcces needed to protect the environment.

Poor countries do not care mch because they have more pressing problems to solve.

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Environmental problems faced by rural/urban area

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Environmental problems faced by rural/urban area

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1)Prevalence of unsanitary conditions
2)The Rapid population growth
3)Living in shanty town
4) Air-borne pollutants

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The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), shows the relationship between economic progress and environmental degradation through time as an economy progresses

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causing water pollution and water borne disease will eventually be witnessed.

This gave rise to the widespread of cholera, diarrhea etc. in sanity towns and rural villages that lacks a proper drainage system and a hygienic water supply system.

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depends on biomass fuel such as firewood, straw etc.

The burning of such substances causes air pollution

Such smoke and fumes from indoor contribute to a lot of child dead and causes more smoke related diseases than cigarette smoking.

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poverty can also lead to a rapid growing population

As the population increase, there is the need for more houses and more demand for agricultural land which will eventually lead to the factors listed above.

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People are forced to venture into the forest to meet their basic needs.

Desertification is the encroachment of the desert into area where erosion has been most severe.

This will even consume the more productive land due to the cutting down of trees by the poor, the soil is exposed to all forms of erosion which later lead to further desertification.

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Poverty and Environmental degradation are inter-link to an extent that they enforce each other.