LOVED THIS: THE LUXURY OF TREES How trees or lack of them correlates with urban

LOVED THIS: THE LUXURY OF TREES

How trees or lack of them correlates with urban poverty.

Why? Trees are a commons. The poor don’t respect commons. We don’t invest in commons for the poor because they don’t respect them. We call this fact the twin problem of property rights and time preference. Some of us call it ‘discipline’ or ‘upbringing’ or ‘class’. But in the end, it’s the same thing: overbreeding children you can’t support is a short time preference, demonstration of lack of discipline and foresight, and a failure to respect the commons.

http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/