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The Cost of Economic GrowthIn Chapter 7: The Environment – Part II, Hite and Seitz
The Cost of Economic Growth
In Chapter 7: The Environment – Part II, Hite and Seitz
(2016) discuss the existing tension between development and the environment. Development brings economic growth as well as social and environmental changes. To a developing country, economic growth may be of a higher priority than the consequences to the long-term health of its citizens or its environment. On the other hand, poverty can also harm the environment such as how searching for land to farm contributes to deforestation.