On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:56:02 EST, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:

> Finally, Sebastian writes in response to my statement that
> well-educated, urbanized, wealthy populations leave a smaller
> footprint on the environment than do impoverished populations of the
> same size:
> 
> > I'd be interested in knowing what evidence there is to say that
> > poor people make a larger, negative, impact on the environment,
> > compared to rich people.

There is a famous picture of the Haitian/Dominican-Republic border, 
published in the National Geographic Society Magazine of November 
1987, which graphically exposed the profoundly negative 
environmental impact of endemic poverty in a significant human 
population.


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