What does this statement mean: “Everyone, no matter who, no matter how rich or poor, has lived in the Tijuana garbage dump. One’s type of suffering does not rate, in my book, above or below anyone else’s”

This dump is very close to where all the rich and affluent live.  This dump holds their thrown out items/trash.  It is a collective of all of the goods of the people, poor or rich.  

Explanation:

The playing field is leveled at the dump.  To each his own, and get what you can while you canIt's almost like saying that due to the amount of "rich" stuff you can find, it is like the rich people are there too

- a.) the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.

"fire and ice" is one of robert frost's most popular poems. it was published in december 1920 in harper's magazine and in 1923 in his pulitzer prize−winning book new hampshire. it discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate.

c. the power of desire is greater than the power of hate.