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Climate Change Solution: Give Money to the Poor

Posted on 04/06/11 by Kristine

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Could cash transfers be effective in helping people adapt to climate change? An article on the Due South blog thinks this strategy could work. Giving money to the poor will help them meet basic needs and enable them to respond better to climate-related disasters, it says.

Poverty makes people more vulnerable to the adverse effects of global warming, much as it has always made them more vulnerable to diseases, crimes, oppression and all other terrible things in society. Cash transfer programs would essentially try to address this crippling poverty in order to empower people to face the challenges of a changing climate.

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  • on 04/06/11, by Achando dee:

    Giving money directly rarely works, empowering through education and giving sustainable jobs/employment to the communities, especially the you and the women sounds more practical and likely to work.

    • on 04/07/11, by Kristine:

      Bolsa Familia, the conditional cash transfer program in Brazil, has been an effective tool in reducing poverty. Well-implemented CCT programs do have an impact in helping poor people. But you're right. Cash transfers don't build better schools or create jobs and may promote a culture of dependency. Which is why CCTs should be implemented alongside programs that improve education and health systems, and create economic opportunities, among others.

  • on 04/09/11, by Eric Shang:

    We should not only give money. In China, we have some rich people who just give money without respecting those receivers. We need to help them by heart without caring about fame or someting else. Those kinds of work won't help people.

  • on 04/09/11, by jkcarillo:

    It should be changed from 'give money to the poor' to 'give money to the right people who are helping the poor'. If you give money to the poor, they wouldn't exactly want it. Their priorities are food and shelter. With the use of the money being donated, the money should be used to build educational and medical facilities. I believe this is the best solution as it's also the best long term plan.

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