Top 5 reasons you must not become environmentalist in a poor country

Every profession has its own worth. Medicine, engineering, information technology, business management, blogging, internet marketing and all others professions have various pluses and minuses. But practitioner of nothing of them has to face a ridiculous situation like the one in the field of environmental management has to face in practical life. Environmental management though apparently sounds like one of the above lucrative professions but it is quite different in a poor country when one wants to implement his knowledge to earn money. Therefore, it is widely said that if you really want to grow professionally you must not become an environmentalists in a poor country. 

Here are top 5 reasons you must not become an environmentalist in a poor country.

Everybody is environmentalist in a poor country

You take any poor country of Asia, Africa or of any other region whoever has some basic knowledge of environment proudly claims himself as an environmentalist. This trend is higher in government departments where whoever is assigned to control pollution first of all he declares himself as an expert in the field of environmental management. As a result those who are qualified environmentalist hardly find any space to apply their professional skills for the growth for their career. 

Everyone is champion of environment in a poor country

You need not to talk about environment in any poor country around the world. Before you start speaking the one who you are talking to will start giving a sermon on pollution control as if he is the only person who really cares about environment. Instead of listening to you he would give you suggestions and tips on how to control pollution of all types. People in such states consider environmental management a kids' game that anybody can play easily.

What you are in addition to being an environmentalist?

This is the most asked question during job interview for hiring an environmentalist in poor countries. Employers want a jack of all trade type of person who can manage their health, safety and environmental management department with equal expertise. The required qualification in private sectors of such countries for health, safety and environment (HSE) manager is mostly masters in environmental engineering or sciences. So if you want to be environmentalist in a poor country you need to get a few other degrees simultaneously.

Confusion in environmental qualification

Many employers in both government and private sectors of most of the poor countries are quite confused on environmental qualification. They mix up a degree of environment engineering and environmental sciences and take them for the same purpose. However, the job of environmental engineer is to design and help design environmental control system and equipment while environmental scientists do work of general nature related to environmental protection and conservation. 

Low salary package

This is the main reason you must not become an environmentalist in poor countries. Environmentalists earn quite lesser than a practioner of any other key profession while in government their pay packages are shamefully low. Environmental management is not the priority of majority of the companies in such countries nor they have to face much pressure from environmental prosecution side because of weak implementation of green laws. That is why most companies just treat it as a burden on its budget and offer very low salary.