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Huber&#x27;s thesis is that wealth leads to environmental conservation in two ways: 1) that wealthy nations develop and implement technologies to maximize the efficiency of land use, and 2) that wealthy individuals pour their wealth into the conservation of nature. Using secondary data analysis, I test the first national-level hypothesis with regressions of the variables &quot;Gross National Income&quot; and &quot;ecological footprint,&quot; and test the second individual-level hypothesis with logistic regressions of the variables &quot;income&quot; and &quot;donation to environmental groups,&quot; from both the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey. 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