A recent study by the World Wildlife Fund reveals that the number of threatened and endangered bird species in high-income nations has increased every decade from 1950 until 2020. It estimates that the trend will continue and not decline in high-income nations because of habitat loss and pesticide use. These data could be used by critics of the environmental Kuznets curve to argue that: Question 17 options: The environment Kuznets curve exists because of shift in the predominant form of economic activity from agriculture to manufacturing to services. The race to the bottom is responsible for promoting the exporting of environmental degradation from high-income to low- and middle-income nations. The environmental Kuznets curve does not apply to all forms of pollution All of the above