“Reducing inequality is one way of adapting to climate change and building resilience.”
~ Dagomar Degroot to Joe McCarthy
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/climate-change-lessons-from-history/
“'When do societies start to fall apart? When do populations really suffer? It’s often when there’s a very high amount of social and economic inequality,' Dagomar Degroot, associate professor of environmental history at Georgetown University, told Global Citizen. 'Because who suffers the most? It's usually the poorest people without access to resources, people who are just barely getting by, maybe relying on just one kind of crop so they are vulnerable when that crop fails.
'We found that societies that were most resilient had robust traditions of civic charity, or very little social and economic inequality,' he said. 'Reducing inequality is one way of adapting to climate change and building resilience.'”
~ Joe McCarthy
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