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'poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change'

But is it the state of being poor that makes people vulnerable to climate change, or the processes that lead to their impoverishment?

if you have access to a clean and healthy environment that provides for your needs - meaning you don't need two dollars a day (or perhaps even one) - then you aren't living in poverty!

these underlying environmental factors that inevitably prompted societal collapse

societal collapse is often avoidable – a message that is painfully pertinent given the ecologically unsustainable nature of many modern societies

there are many reasons why societies make disastrous decisions, including a lack of foresight; poor governance that ensures people can get away with doing things that are in their personal interest but not in the interest of the society; a lack of flexibility that leaves societies that no longer work in a changing environment; and perhaps most importantly a refusal to acknowledge a problem even exists