Reducing Space Exploration Will Not End Poverty

Space exploration has made great progress in recent years. During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union competed among them and invested a lot of money in this field. Since then, America has continued this project of sending ships to space and exploring the infinite universe. Millions of people are spending money on these projects, but they are truly worth it. Millions of people live in poverty and are hungry dying These imperialists do not care about it and are using a large budget to send spacecraft throughout the universe.

I recently visited Ghana at the end of the poor day and celebrated the national poverty reduction and prosperity sharing in the past 20 years. The number of poor people declined from 53% in 1991 to 21% in 2012. Ghana has developed and the reliance of energy has become less important for national economic growth and stability as the movement of workers from agriculture to services and industry increases. When electricity runs out (almost every day), the blue sky depends on expensive diesel generators to maintain production. The company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars spare fuel in the first nine months of 2015. This reliability challenge can be felt in manufacturing companies in this region. Sub-Saharan African companies estimate 9% annual sales loss due to blackouts

Governments around the world promised to finish extreme poverty at the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome. Considering the population of those days, they promised to halve the number of malnourished people by 2015. This means reducing the number of the poor by 836 million. Many critics argue that this goal is inappropriate because extreme poverty can finish sooner by the correct redistribution policy. However, the global leader did not strengthen the goal, but secretly weakened the goal. Thomas Pogge, a professor and development director at Yale University pointed out that when the Millennium Declaration was signed, the goal was rewritten to Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG - 1) and it was changed to this ratio (against absolute numbers) Did. It is half. The people of the world live on less than a dollar a day. By moving the focus to income level, converting from absolute number to proportional number makes it easier to achieve goal.

The most powerful manifestation of the story of poverty reduction comes from the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Based on the Millennium Declaration of 2000, the main goal of the campaign is to halve global poverty by 2015 - a goal that is proud to claim to have been achieved earlier than planned. However, if we go beyond words of congratulation, it is clear that this statement is deeply misleading. Governments around the world promised to finish extreme poverty at the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome. Considering the population of those days, they promised to halve the number of malnourished people by 2015. This means reducing the number of the poor by 836 million. Many critics argue that this goal is inappropriate because extreme poverty can finish sooner by the correct redistribution policy.