Occupational Wellness Part 3 by Annelisa Mills by Annelisa https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk CQ: What is the relationship between poverty and the environment within Ethiopia? en-us 2016-10-21 17:24:37 UTC 2025-10-21 08:21:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png I chose Ethiopia as the country I plan on focusing on 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132415708 Photo Provided by, wikipedia.org]]> 2016-10-21 17:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132415708 Major Environmental Issues in Ethiopia:  265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132418202 1. Deforestation
2. Soil Erosion
3. Soil Depletion
4. Endangered Species

Here is a shocking fact Stated by iberianature;
"As of 1994, 600,000 acres of arable land were washed away each year. The combined effects of severe drought and a 17-year civil war have also added to Ethiopia’s environmental problems."

Adding to their many pollution problems are these quickly growing environmental issues.

Could this long war be the major connection to why Ethiopians don't have jobs and their environmental conditions are so bad?

Picture provided by Wikipedia.org]]> 2016-10-21 17:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132418202 Pollution Issues: 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132420734 Numbeo states the numbers of different pollution factors in Ethiopia, 
  • "Air Pollution; High
  • Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility; Moderate
  • Dissatisfaction with Garbage Disposal;  Very High
  • Dirty and Untidy; High
  • Noise and Light Pollution; High
  • Water Pollution; High
  • Dissatisfaction to Spend Time in the City; High
  • Dissatisfaction with Green and Parks in the City; High"
Taking in this information, I noticed that most of these issues are pretty significant in Ethiopia and all of these high pollution factors are creating a very poor atmosphere for any kind of living.

Could this be effecting the extreme homelessness levels?

Picture taken from Wikipedia.org
]]> 2016-10-21 17:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/132420734 Poverty numbers: 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133134459 According to visual geography,
"Unemployment rate in the urban areas is very high, about 50%, and many families struggle to get by; you therefore often see children working when they are very young, typically selling paper napkins etc. in the street. A typical job for children in the country is working in the fields or tending livestock."

The biggest piece of information from this is how high the unemployment rates are! What are the other 50% of people doing?

Could that other 50% be the reason their environment is so bad because no one's working to fix the problem?

This is a little boy in Ethiopia trying to sell medicine and condoms for money.


Photo taken by Nana Bjørnlund, on
visualgeography.com
]]> 2016-10-25 18:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133134459 Here are all the links if I missed any I forgot to add: 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133143905 http://borgenproject.org/ten-facts-about-poverty-in-ethiopia/

http://iberianature.com/wildworld/
guides/wildlife-of-ethiopia/environmental-issues-in-ethiopia/

http://www.idp-uk.org/OurProjects/Environment/EnvironmentProject.htm

https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/country_result.jsp?country=Ethiopia

http://www.visualgeography.com/categories/ethiopia/jobs.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Forward,_Dear_Mother_Ethiopia

http://www.visualgeography.com/pictures/ethiopia_9_7.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming_on_human_health

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=4107&picture=chain-link

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Ethiopia]]> 2016-10-25 18:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133143905 CQ: What is the relationship between poverty and the environment within Ethiopia? 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133155266
After finding and analyzing all the information from my other posts, I've found a few main conclusions and connections between poverty and the environment in Ethiopia.  1. The number one major connection is the civil war that's still going on there. Not only can they not get jobs because of it because they're focusing all their time on this war, but it's also devastating to their environment as well because they most likely don't have the time, people, or the money to deal with the pollution problems. 2. The second big connection is that the extreme pollution and similar issues could also be making it very difficult to work because most of their country's money comes from agriculture. For that reason alone, It may be difficult to breathe as they work, and they aren't getting the clean water they need to keep working because it's so polluted. 3. After discovering that 50% of the Ethiopian population is unemployed and the rest that do work are only earning an incredibly tiny amount of money for it, I then drew the connection that those 50% who are not working could very likely be another reason why their environment is so bad because there's not enough people working to fix those environmental problems so they're just getting worse. 4. The fourth conclusion is that Ethiopians may not be able to find a reason for why they should work because if the conditions are so bad in their environment that it makes the job extra difficult and they're not even getting paid enough, why work? Which therefore will forever keep them in this terrible cycle of a horrible environment that's getting worse because no one's working to fix it and because of that no one's getting jobs.

 
Picture found from Wikipedia.org]]> 2016-10-25 19:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133155266 Other Important facts to note: 265004219 https://padlet.com/265004219/653od10o7lzk/wish/133162218 The Borgen Project, wrote a few important facts I wanted to point out. Here's what they found; 
  1. "With an estimated population of 86 million people, 78% of Ethiopians struggle with an income below the US $2 a day.
  2. Approximately 34% of the rural population in Ethiopia has access to an improved water source.
  3. Almost two-thirds of its people are illiterate."

From the previous posts, I found it very fascinating that there are 86 million people in Ethiopia but again only 50% of them work and the ones that do, receive very little money.  The water and illiteracy issues are striking as well.

Are Ethiopians not working because they're not earning enough money to live?

Photo provided by Wikipedia.org

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