There are several ways in which helping to alleviate global poverty might be in the best interest of everyone, including those who help: Economic interests: Improving the situation for impoverished nations can contribute to the global economy as they become to purchase goods from more affluent countries. Environmental interests: Global poverty causes the environment. For example, poor people in the Amazon region cut down trees to make farms and charcoal to sell. Likewise, impoverished people burning wood for cooking and for warmth atmospheric pollution. Health interests: New infectious diseases often break out in areas. These diseases can then spread across the globe. Sociopolitical interests: Mass-migration of the poor and dispossessed can pressure on political and social institutions, as affluent nations are forced to deal with the needs of economic refugees. Poverty may also be a contributing factor to terrorism, although this not universally agreed upon