If global warming is 100% real why are they claiming it will hurt poor people more than rich people?

Question

Shouldn't it be equal since it involves the entire globe?

For you people that are gonna get smart and ask where I got this from...search the news!!!! Lots of people are reporting on it!

Answer 1

It will hurt poor people the same way everything else in life hurts the poor more than the rich. The rich don't care how much gas prices go up, but the poor have to stop driving, the rich don't care if oxygen levels go down they just move, the poor die, the rich don't care about global warming because they can afford more air conditioning! It makes perfect sense.

Answer 2

If you want to stop CO emission all you have to do is shut down all no Green power sources. In California it would be about 90%.
Using electricity would be a right for the rich and a dream for the poor.
You would have no way to get to work, because even if you had a electric car you would not be able to charge it.
You would not have a job because companies would move to third world countries that are exempt for the KOTO Treaty
Read the book “Make Room” or see the movie version Soylent Green this will give you a vision of what life will be like.

Answer 3

Interesting question. I think that, in a sense, the rich will not suffer as quickly as poorer people with the issue of global warming. There are a few reasons why:

1. Living environments. Poor people (I mean truely poor people) tend to live in areas where factories and machines are near, which makes their living environments more contaminated more and more quickly simply because they are right near polluted zones. The effects of living in these areas will affect them before they do with the people who live farther away (richer areas).

2. Medical care. Once the affects of global warming hit the poor, they will not be able to afford medical care to help them when they get diseases like cancer, etc. Richer people have more choices, and therefore have, for the most part, better health care. And, if they end up being very ill, they can pay for good quality care.

3. Money itself. Richer people can move out of dangerous zones, and they can escape immediate problems caused be global warming. Although I 100 percent agree with you (global warming is definetly GLOBAL), I do think that certain people all over the world will be hit first and suffer more, and those people are the poor.

Answer 4

It will hurt the rich equally, but the rich, especially in foreign countries, have much more advantages to move to better locations with better facilities while poor people will be stuck where they are and lose everything.
Since there are more poor people in the world, the numbers will be catastrophically higher, but comparatively an equal percentage of the rich will be affected, but it won't be the same number as the poor.

Answer 5

For the same reason Hurricane Katrina affected poor people more than rich people: mobility.
People who are talking about air conditioning, etc, have no clue what global warming is about. It:s NOT about the temperature going up a couple degrees, it's about changing coastlines, shrinking islands, violent storms, shifting weather patterns.etc.
The wealthier people can move when the hurricanes are coming, or when the tidal waves wipe out coastline, or when Indiana freezes over. Poor people are pretty much stuck where they are.

Answer 6

Global warming will be felt more in regions which already have hot climate currently. It happens to be that richest people in the world live in areas with rather moderate climates. (N-America, Europe etc.). while the poorest countries (sub-Saharan Africa ) are in the hottest regions.

Poor countries are further too poor to pay for adaptation technologies: Air-conditioning and higher dikes are affordable in the Netherlands, but not in Bangladesh: People get regularly killed in Bangladesh because of floodings, while the Netherlands is already planning to move some rivers to coop with a sea-level rise of 1 meter

Answer 7

If there are changes made for auto emission's it will directly impact those with older auto's... I honestly do not think my 94 old's could pass a California emission's test.... SO I would have to either bring the auto up to standard's.. get a new one.. or not have an auto at all.. which would not be practicle since I live in a rural area.

Also.. it would cause the cost of many fuel's to go up to help make them burn more efficently... as well as developing green fuels.....

Hope that helps.

Answer 8

With money you have resources, without you are stuck. As less crops grow and the climate changes, people with money will be able to acquire the limited amount of more costly things left while the poor will need more and have even less.

Answer 9

every change hurts poor people more. there will be droughts and floods in places. poor people will not be able to afford to be displace. like in bangladesh, there will be flooding and they live off the land, that is why it is harder for poor people. rich people can just move some where else. poor people have to walk most likely in poor countries. kind of a dumb question.

Answer 10

The reason it will hurt the poor is because Al Gore and the Hollywood left will probably make a fortune off of scarring the dumb poor into buying what ever product they sell in the name of pollution control scam. have you noticed that none of them are cutting back on anything they do, they probably will be lighting their cigars with hundred dollar bills that we send them by buying their products.