What is ""poverty""? in what way do (a) poverty or (b) affluence affect the environment. explain the problems w efface by not including the harmful environmental costs in the prices of goods and services.

Poverty is a severe state of lacking something that is critical for living or wellbeing, such as a severe lack of food.

Effect of poverty on environmental

The demand to the environment increases as poverty drives people to turn to the environment to support them as they struggle through poverty .

Due to the lack of electricity for example people will turn to the environment to get wood for fire so that they can cook or keep themselves warm.

Others will overfish as they try to feed their families from fishing ; the depletion of all these resources have negative impact on the environment.

How does affluence affect the environment

Affluence refers having plenty of money to acquire a high standard of living .

As people get rich they become greedy and demand more those with businesses keep expanding them at the cost of demolishing the environment and their businesses are usually not environmental friendly but as long as they make money that is not taken into consideration.

The problems w efface by not including the harmful environmental costs in the prices of goods and services.

It has an effect on people understanding how much it actual costs to do damage control when the environment has been harmed or damaged.

Explanation:

if im not mistaken its a. collective emotional arousal

answer; cognitive dissonance;