In what ways can science help end poverty?

Question

This isn't homework.

This is a question I found interesting.

Answer 1

It really depends on which poverty you're talking about.  U.S. poverty could be most helped by addiction and mental illness treatment.  This includes treatment of those abused as children.

Poverty abroad is much more severe and can be helped in very simple ways.  I just saw a presentation by a woman who was teaching people to make charcoal from agricultural waste.  This gives them a cleaner burning cooking fuel (reducing respiratory illness) and also gives people a source of income by selling any excess charcoal they make to others in the community.

Answer 2

Do your own homework.

But, I'll help you anyway. Science will end poverty by creating lasers that kill poor people.

Answer 3

Talk people into working... Stop social welfare, with positive reinforcement doled out for negative behavior

Answer 4

I dont think science can end poverty, but it can help the poor to live more comfortably. Scientific research in the fields on genetically modified foods, low cost engineering techniques and medicine will help the poor to satisfy their basic needs easier. Science also opens gateways to new technologies and industries which may create additional job opportunities in the future.

Answer 5

Science can help stop poverty by using modern technology in agriculture and industry instead of using destructive activity.

Answer 6

Create a money machine. Lol.

Answer 7

I guess this is a homework question?

Well here's a hint. Google genetically modified food.

Answer 8

Take one atom of love and another gene of money and mix it together you get THE RICH AND POWERFUL WHO LOVE THEIR MONEY.

So long as there is greed there shall always be poverty.

Answer 9

By using birth control. Too many children are being born without the ability of parent/s to take care of them. Last night I watched a documentary on ABC about girls being sold into slavery in Haiti by their parent/s. Mass starvation, disease, and homelessness in third world countries, again this is because of the inability to provide for children being born with no means of taking care of them. In the U.S. whether young women realize it or not, this can happen here as government assistance could bankrupt our country, and there will be no welfare assistance to depend on. Also more population control would mean less pollution of our planet.

Answer 10

Practical alchemy.