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?"
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