Equality When?

A public meeting on the impacts of inequality.

Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 4EY (map here )

Thursday 22nd November 2007, 7:15pm

This meeting's purpose is to launch a public debate about the effects of human inequality both on human health and on the environment.

For example, it is now clear that people who live in less-equal societies have shorter and lower-quality lives than people in more-equal societies.

Also, in less-equal societies consumption tends to be driven more by social pressures than by actual needs or wants. This is a major (probably the main) cause of the overconsumption that is now causing climate change. (Discussion paper about this here, and as a pdf here

So the question is no longer "is equality a realistic goal?" but "when must be achieve it by?"

Join the discussion now .

Main speakers:

Richard Wilkinson

Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham and author of "The Impact of Inequality" (Routledge, 2005)

Danny Dorling

Professor of Human Geography, the University of Sheffield; lead author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's recent report "Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968-2005" (Policy Press, 2007).

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You can download the latest version of the A4 flyer here (204.8kb). And an A5 version . Please print them out and spread it around.

Download a discussion paper on inequality and climate change
And the draft "equality when" proposal from January 2007

And join the discussion/announcement list here (or just send an email to "equalitywhen-subscribe at groups.yahoo.com"

Organised by Bob Hughes (bob at dustormagic dot net)

Last updated 24/10/2007