Paste, February 13, 2017: EarthRx: Poor People Are Not Driving the Environmental Crisis, They Are On the Front Line
“’Policies that entrench unequal distribution of resources, lack of tenure and low commodity prices drive the poor into marginal environments, causing more poverty,’ the paper states.
In other words, inequality is the cause of both poverty and environmental degradation—really just two sides of the same coin, two symptoms of the same disease. And the disease is greed.”