The Environmental Kuznets Curve

question 14

Multiple Choice

The environmental Kuznets curve

• A) demonstrates at low income levels environmental damage from economic activity is high.
• B) demonstrates as societies begin to industrialize and raise incomes the negative scale effects lessen.
• C) demonstrates as societies begin to industrialize and raise incomes the negative structural effects lessen.
• D) demonstrates at high income levels the positive effects outweigh the negative effects substantially.
• E) is usually graphed in the shape of the letter U.

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