I will pay for the following article Affluence: Is it a Solution to the Environmental Crisis. The work is to be 7 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Poverty is mitigated through economic development, which means more aggressive exploitation of natural resources and more severe pollution and hence a greater burden on the environment. Hence the question is, is it possible to enjoy increasing affluence and better environmental quality simultaneously? Brutal growth, specifically the traditional material or resource exhaustive production burdens the economy’s energy and material ‘sources and sinks’ (De Bruyn, 2000, p. 61). A statement given to the Club of Rome in the 1970s informed the world about the adverse impact of continuous affluence (De Bruyn, 2000, p. 1). Increasing land shortage, aggressive exploitation of non-renewable and renewable resources and worsening pollution would eventually bring affluence to a standstill. The disintegration of natural and human-made structures would be the outcome. Unless drastic measures were carried out to curb affluence, the economic system would impair the surrounding ecosystem (Field & Field, 2008). In the latter half of the 1960s, post-war economic prosperity was broadly viewed as one of the major accomplishments of contemporary societies. However, during this period progressing affluence was condemned as having a detrimental impact, especially on the environmental system (Dugger & Peach, 2009). Within several years several scholars challenged the potential and appeal of sustainable economic prosperity in the long term.

However, several economists countered strongly by stressing that these scholars had underrated technological progress and had overlooked price behavior, which would involuntarily regulate supply and demand for natural resources. It is not necessary to curb affluence. understanding external outcomes would be adequate (Ison et al., 2002). Other economists even claimed that affluence could greatly contribute to environmental stability as it encourages technological development and produces the resources needed for funding environmental programs (Hollander, 2004).