Respond to Mike Davis

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The Slum Residents Feeds off from Danger

Slum Ecology , as Mike Davis would have mentioned it . The article based on Slum Ecology ' - which apparently boasts the same title - primarily discusses the reasonable effects of Megaslums and its residents towards the rest of the population , and the dire need to contain or control its proliferation . Throughout the article , every negative effect towards a certain favorable populace has been equated to the existence of these Megaslums , as Davis mentioned that many of these as incubators of

br diseases (Davis 150 . However , the revelation of such facts does not seem to stop its proliferation , as if it did not bother the more affluent states and the richer populace . Aid from First World countries has been ineffective so far , in controlling the proliferation of poverty within the Third World countries , which in turn could result to more devastation , deaths , misallocation of funding , health , environmental and social issues that could easily spread upwards - towards the Affluent nations

Even though slums and slum lifestyle have been the focus of the text everything would still revolve around poverty and its dire effects towards the population , as well as the nation . Poverty is the worst disease a nation could contract , as it gradually eats away society . They generate undesirable areas , slums , in the urban world . As more people would fall under the poverty line , the slums grow and further hinder the development of the nation . A surprising fact could awaken the emotions of the...