Scholars debate about whether environmental destruction causes poverty or whether poverty causes environmental destruction out of sheer desperation, but it is agreed that they go together
I'm actually so glad the last day to drop a class without penalty was yesterday because I would be rage-quitting this one right about now tbh
love it when I think I'm going to be learning different frameworks to approach and try to understand a concept so vast and complex as our environment and I get told the problem is brown people existing too much instead
i super recommend debunking economics as a book. it will almost certainly teach you more than anything you’re getting out of this class. unfortunately it still assumes capitalism is not all that bad, but it’s still very satisfying to read an economist talk about how everything you’re gonna have covered in your class is fundamentally incorrect, and has been incorrect since the inception of economics
