Unsustainable Inequalities

By Lucas Chancel, Malcolm DeBevoise (translator),

Book cover of Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment

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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa.

Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out…

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1 author picked Unsustainable Inequalities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Alessio Terzi

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We intuitively understand that decarbonization and social justice are deeply interwoven as 21st-century challenges.

Dr. Chancel’s book shows us in great detail how this is the case, and therefore why it is important to keep inequalities in mind when designing policies to accelerate the decarbonization of the economy. After all, the poor are also more exposed to the catastrophic events associated with climate change.

But perhaps my greatest takeaway was looking at the problem the other way around, meaning that Chancel also shows us how tackling social inequalities can actually help us address some environmental challenges.

From Alessio's list on the relationship between the economy and nature.