Over the past 40 years, countries have become significantly richer, but their governments have become significantly poorer
Human inequality corrodes the fabric of society through social, political and economic means
poverty has major implications on a person's wellbeing, lowering their self-worth and fulfilment and subjecting them to greater levels of crime and disease
Someone's risk to climate change is depended on the hazard's nature (slow vs fast onset), exposure (environment) and vulnerability (socio-economic status)
Human inequality is rising within countries and at the extremes but falling between countries and in the middle.