Polls show that concern about the environment is sometimes broadest in low-income communities because residents bear the brunt of problems like air pollution.
Although the Brazilian news media tends to focus on brazen street robberies or violence that occurs in the city's wealthier neighborhoods, experts say Rio's poor residents bear the brunt of increased crime.
The city's affluent classes reap the lion's share of the benefits from the activities that poison the air, while less privileged residents bear most of the human health costs.
And even here in the country's financial capital, where residents bear daily witness to the stark extremes of Indian wealth and poverty, Mr. Ambani's building is so spectacularly over the top that the city's already elastic boundaries of excess and disparity are being stretched to new dimensions.
But the package, which is expected to forestall thousands of layoffs, the closing of 40 firehouses and other drastic cuts in city services, does not include a tax on commuters, which the mayor had pushed for months as a way to avoid having city residents bear all of the tax burden.
After a nine-month battle, ISIS was finally expelled from Mosul earlier this year, leaving devastation and destruction in its wake – homes lie in ruins and residents bear the physical and psychological scars of war.
Nursing home residents bear a substantial burden of influenza morbidity and mortality.
Previous research has documented increasing deprivation levels among suburban immigrants in Canada, suggesting that foreign-born residents bear a disproportionate burden of socioeconomic disadvantage [ 19, 20].
The coming weeks will still present challenges as residents bear down and await the worst of the rains, which are expected to come in mid-February.
In the absence of resident bears or wolves, however, rangers have to shoot the surplus animals, or else they starve to death.
