Does helping the planet hurt the poor?

Wall Street Journal: Environmental protection often comes at the expense of the world's poorest people, who struggle to meet their subsistence needs. Children carry firewood in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. All of us who are middle class or above in the U.S. and other industrialized nations spend money on many things we do not need. We could instead donate that money to organizations that will use it to make a huge difference in the lives of the world's poorest people--people who struggle to survive each day......

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