Inequality is among
the root causes of climate change.
The spectrum of wealth that leads to inequality is so broad
that the divergence between the haves and have-not is such that it escapes
comprehension.
Some of our number struggle to survive on $2 or less a day,
while many, and the number is increasing all the time, garner that much every
second.
Those at the lower end of the curve consider only survival,
while those give the curve its obscenity, do little more than consume.
And of course, it is the careless consumption of
carbon-intensive goods that has unbalanced and disrupted earth’s atmosphere resulting
in climate change.
Writing on Alternet, Dave Johnson has considered the concentration
of wealth in America and within that the effect is has on the country’s
politics, its democracy and its people.
He argues in the story: “9 Photos That Reveal America's Obscene Division of Wealth”, that if people understood how wealth worked and
what it meant, they would be demanding that politicians did something about it.
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