Describe the connections between rising income and environmental and social indicators. Which indicators improve and which worsen as national income rises?

What will be an ideal response?

Carbon dioxide emissions get worse as income rises; access to safe drinking water improves. Child mortality and child labor both decrease as national income rises. Other indicators are more mixed. Deforestation occurs more in low- and upper-middle income countries, while lower-middle countries have deforestation but less than the upper middle income group, and high-income countries both experience reforestation.