Those who advocate that poverty relief should be the primary goal of foreign aid may criticize the choice of geopolitical influence as the goal of a given budget allocation. But the budget for poverty relief may be criticized in turn by advocates of environmental conservation, if they feel that it leaves little funding free for environmental projects. Focusing on the environment, on the other hand, may seem premature to advocates of socioeconomic development who see that as the key to realizing all the other goals, including poverty reduction and environmental protection