Inequality (W1)

Subdecks (6)

Cards (155)

  • 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.