Despite the environment pollution, there is another main topic portrayed through the works from Burtynsky which is poverty. Among his pieces which belong to anthropocene, there are a number of picture that reveals the impacts poverty has on people. By taking pictures from slums in different areas, it directly reflects the life of local people. In addition, there are some specific photo that Burtynsky especially compared the different living condition for people in poverty and those who are not.
For example, the picture named Makoko #2 reveals the situation of one of the largest slums in the world located in Nigeria. As it shown below, people in Makoko all living on floating houses that built on river. Due to the reason of poverty, people in Makoko are living in the condition which have no or little access to electricity, sanitation, clean water and food, and safety environment. specifically, in Makoko since all the community is built on the water, the river itself becomes landfills for local population. In this case, within all the garbage being directly throw to the river, the water is badly contaminated. In addition, without enough sanitation access, people are directly drink the contaminated water coming from river and ended up as being sick because of that.
Furthermore, since most of people living in Makoko have a average income below 1 dollar per day. They are less likely to afford the normal spend outside their community. Therefore, in order to support the population in slums keep, living, they managed to create their own economics. People in side Makoko has their own floating market that sells food and daily supports. Therefore, they successfully make the community of makoko become bigger and have a more stable living condition even though it is still way lower than the UN expectancy.
Except the development on economics, population in Makoko also built a floating schools within the helps from some volunteer organization. As the society nowadays starting to put more attention on the poverty population, there are more and more people and organization starting to help people in slums in different areas. For example, UN as the biggest organization, plays a crucial role in supporting multiple slums in sanitation. Other helps including, food donation, money donation, and efforts from some organization who are trying to improve the living condition with limited resources they have in slums.
The graph above shows the extreme poverty population in the world. As can be seen, even the trend for recent years reveals that the population of poverty is keep dropping. There are still about 10% of world's population in 2013 who living in extreme poverty condition. Basing on the world's population in 2013, we can count that the poverty population in 2013 is approximately 720,000,000 people. In this case, it is still a large population.
Finally, within the increasing of world's population, there is a high possibility to keep rising which means, the population of poverty will also keep rising. It might become one of the most urgent problems for world to solve in the future.
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