Environmental Issues

Lesser developed countries dont possess the technological, social and financial advantages that 1st world or industrialized countries possess. As such when it comes to their methods of development they become more harmful rather than helpful to the environment. This paper seeks to discuss the different way in which lesser developed or rather third world countries pose problems due to their methods of development. As a country grows so to does its need to provide an adequate supply of food to its populace. With rising food prices developing countries are always trying numerous way to cut costs, one of those methods is the use of internationally banned pesticides to grow crops. Thought they may be banned they are a cheap alternative to safer pesticides that are available however there is a reason those pesticides have been banned from use since they cause lasting damage to the surrounding ecosystem which harms not only the people growing the food but those who consume it as well. To further sustain this growth leads to a situation of overfishing in the coastal areas around the country resulting in a severe depletion of breeding stock for new generations of fish which endangers future efforts to create methods of renewable fishing methods to ensure that fish stocks would not go extinct. Since few developed countries have the financial resources to develop sewage treatment plants the dumping of raw untreated sewage directly into the sea is common place resulting in damage to the biological elements in the surrounding coastline leading to irreversible harm to the local ecosystem.

Unfortunately due to financial constraints this scene happens in a lot of countries around the world. The resulting uncontrolled rapid population growth of third world countries due to the lack of effective social platforms which encourage family planning leads to a ever growing problems of shortages in infrastructure, financial aid and social welfare which results in having a vast majority of its citizens not getting the aid that they need. This leads to the destruction of natural habitats and ecosystems to fuel this growth (land for raising cattle, burning down forests for farm land) which further damages the surrounding environment leading to potentially irreversible damage to ecosystem of the country leading to the deaths of the unique species inherent in the local area. A rapid industrialization in urban areas due to a need to develop the country economically leads to significant risks of lung disease due to the proximity of factories to urban dwellings. If better methods of development arent encouraged back by the financial resources of first world countries the world may find itself in an environmental situation that it is so poisoned and polluted that it would be unable to support life.