"The poorest three billion people on earth, short of half the world population accounted for about 7% of carbon emissions, while conversely, the richest 7% of people accounted for about half of all emissions." - Fred Pearce, Peoplequake, published in 2010 Current, extreme global inequality makes eradicating poverty impossible within planetary boundaries (and therefore impossible per se). That is because relying on trickle down, within a growth model already transgressing those boundaries, and in circumstances of great inequality creates the paradox of the already rich and over-consuming having to consume ever more for ever fewer benefits to reach the bottom of the income pile. This might be tastelessly political for some, but sharing better the resources we have to enable a rising number to thrive on a finite planet is also just plain maths, physics, biology and chemistry.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:58:12 +0000
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