What are the ways of reducing poverty to improve environmental quality and human being?

Provide more "green" jobs - we need to do that - it would create possible jobs in third world countries. They have to learn to be more self-sufficient instead of relying on everyone for help. Added: The question is, of course, unanswerable with any quantifiable, correct, solution. The first response is an opinion as well as a suggestion. Simply, one among countless actions that could be taken to address a problem that has vexed mankind since we first began walking upright. The fact that there are "haves" and "have-nots" has ALWAYS been with us and the fact that we are breeding ourselves off our planet is one that will, wome day, have to be solved.