I'm not a person who gives up easily.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
Forests are not just resources; they are our planet's lungs and our best defense against climate change.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.