In the passage, the author cites which one of the following claims?
Cadenon June 15 at 09:52PM
Why not C?
Hi,
Wouldn't lines 34-40 show that we can gauge the actual value of their current location from their incomes? Because the people value living in the poorer forest with half as good incomes as another location nearby.
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Hi, I think there are two possible issues with C. First, the general wording makes me read C as a general rule- that is, that you can always gauge the value that people place on an environment be their incomes. While that may be true in one case, we don't know if this is always true. We also have a key difference here. I think that the passage is an example of an income differential being used to determine that people value their environment heavily. That is, it's a measure of relative value to a set of individuals. This is different from the total, actual value of the environment, which would be quite hard to calculate.
While I think the lines in question do indeed show that we can use income differentials to determine the relative values that people place on their environments, this doesn't go as far as C does.
