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| Agree | 38% | 54 votes | Total: 142 votes | |
| Disagree | 62% | 88 votes |
by David Elder
Poverty around the world contributes to pollution in ways that most don't realize. Industrialized countries with well organized citizenry tend to rein in corporate polluters muc...read more
by John Stall
Filipinos are not by nature dirty people, in fact far from it. They are conscientious about their personal cleanliness and appearance, and are fastidious in keeping their homes ...read more
by Gina Barr
This writer is in agreement with the statement. Poverty is the worst polluter. It pollutes minds, wrenches emotions, rendering its victims polluted. Poverty pollutes futures ...read more
Working is a part of life that I know I have always had to do in order to meet basic needs and to survive, and I feel we all should have to work for our fortunes in life, otherw...read more
by Gloria Allen
Indeed yes, but which kind of poverty are we speaking of? Economic poverty? The poverty of the slums and ghetto? The unsightly trash on the streets? Or the more insidious sp...read more
by Kim Hamilton
Poverty is a scourge. It happens of neglect and abandonment. Good fortune leaves people sometimes but mostly it is people who abandon themselves, their families or their commu...read more
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The general rule is: the richer the people the worse the pollution. Just take a look around in the world and you will see that the poorest countries cause hardly any or no pollu...read more
There is no doubt at all in my mind that it is the pursuit of wealth, not poverty, that is the worst polluter. When major oil corporations run leaking pipes at surface level ...read more
by Wik
I have lived in the Philippines for almost my entire life and the culture known for Filipinos of being naturally hygienic is deeply instilled in me. It takes me to take a bath t...read more
by Jake Winkler
While I disagree with this statement, I also disagree with some of the points other writers have made to support disagreement. I will address those lastly. Now I will compare ch...read more
by Chaz Z.
Let's be clear, poverty is a condition, not a person. The best rebuke to this statement is the fact that, ignorance is the worst polluter. Second only to laziness, then, outrigh...read more
Sufferers of poverty are affected by pollution probably more than any other focus group. But, as perspective is the key to this discussion, I believe that we need to keep those...read more
by Ben Hughes
When I first saw this question, I thought it would be quite straightforward to answer, but the more I looked into it, the complex it seems. So I'll tackle it from two different ...read more
by Brett Gannon
I also disagree. Yes people who are living in poverty are shall we say... dirty? So we know they are dirty and smelly but that doesn't mean they are polluting. Since they are in...read more
It can be easy to deduce that poverty is the worst polluter. Looking at the poorest areas, one would have to be self-deceived not to almost run to this conclusion. However, does...read more
If we were to focus on a global scale the answer is obvious. Poverty is the one of the things which contribute least to pollution. To work out how impoverished an area is we col...read more
Poverty is not the worst polluter. It just look that way. It is a question of smoke and mirrors. The poor cannot afford the smoke and mirrors, so they have no way of hiding t...read more
by Daniel Walch
Poverty is not the worst polluter. If we look at pollution statistics and do a comparison of first world and third world nations, we see that more advanced nations are responsib...read more

