How does poverty and affluence affect the environment?
What will be an ideal response?
Poverty sometimes results in environmental degradation. Because poor families need natural resources to survive, destructive farming techniques, deforestation, and hunting may become prevalent in poor areas. On the other hand, poor cultures may be regarded as more environmentally aware because they live closer to the land and are more appreciative of its fragility. They have a vested interest in sustainable resource use. Affluence may be associated with more environmental awareness because more affluent people are not preoccupied with meeting their basic needs. However, affluence can be destructive. Developed nations presently consume massive and unprecedented levels of natural resources. Affluence encourages wastefulness and lack of concern for nature due to the desire to acquire more and more material possessions and the fact that wealthier people tend to live in urban areas.
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