Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder professor of human geography at Oxford University.

The Rich, the Poor and the Earth

The most important benefit of the equality effect may be that it leads us to behave in ways that are less environmentally damaging. The evidence for this is only emerging now. We can track the effect across a range of indicators by looking at the 25 richest countries in the world, which have varying levels of inequality.

July 17, 2017