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Posted: 02 Nov 2015 08:00 PM PST
“There is something
fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in
liquidation.” — Herman E. Daly
According to the latest 2015 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report the top 1% of wealth holders now own half of all global household wealth, much of this wealth has been concentrated in the United States and Europe. A 2014 report by Oxfam warned that the richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world’s population. (1a) While most of us are aware of the inequality in modern western society it is much less known what impacts such wealth creation have throughout society and the environment.   |
