The rich get richer and our atmosphere worsens

Vladimir Putin - mega-rich and world leader.

Climate change and its consistent worsening equate with the steady rise of the mega-rich.

The world community will never mitigate the human-induced damage to Earth’s atmosphere until it understands and dethrones the capitalist-based economic system.

It has been said that most people can more easily identify with the physical end of the world rather than living in a world in which something different than economics is given priority.

Just of late the Melbourne Age and The Huffington Post have worked as one to expose the murky intrigue of the cash-rich oil industry and now The Age tells us about the equal distasteful and morally questionable activities of the super-rich.

Read the report here - “Panama Papers leak exposes how Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping's friends hide money.”