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When environmental advice ignores economic reality

I drive for rideshare to make ends meet and feel sick about my carbon footprint, but every environmental group I contact suggests I 'find different work.'

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Environmental advocacy becomes tone-deaf when it assumes people have flexibility to change their survival strategies.

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