Grist is Wrong: Poor People Are Not Driving the Environmental Crisis, They Are On the Front Line.
7 min readJul 4, 2018
Originally published in Paste Magazine
The idea that capitalism will save the world and that poverty, not greed, is actually to blame for deforestation and other ecological disasters is nothing new, but I always dismissed it as more free market nutjob nonsense. When I recently saw the well-respected…