Why, on Shiva's View, Is the Conflation of Subsistence Living

question 18

Multiple Choice

Why, on Shiva's view, is the conflation of subsistence living with poverty especially troublesome?

• A) It breeds Western-style consumerism in third-world countries
• B) It supports a cultural bias known as ethnocentrism whereby people from affluent countries fail to acknowledge the heritage of those in the developing world
• C) It provides false legitimacy to 'poverty-removal" projects which instead removing poverty removes sustainability
• D) All of the above

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