Posts Tagged ‘Wealth’

More equality = more recycling

Monday, October 26, 2009

Reading this ambitious book review of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, I can’t help but to share the insight that it seems that the more egalitarian a society (be it a nation-state or a state within a nation), the more trash gets recycled by its people. Adding this to the list of the  many trashtastic outcomes of redistribution of wealth.


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