What have anthropologists found is responsible for higher rates of greenhouse gas emissions cross-culturally?

A. horticultural methods that burn fields in order to return nutrients to the soil
B. status competition and conspicuous consumption in highly industrialized and postindustrial societies
C. increases in migrant labor patterns that require people to travel across international borders
D. a failure to respond to drought conditions throughout equatorial regions in Africa, Asia, and South America


Answer: B

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