Wealth inequality behind the extinction of mammals

IIN January 2019, Oxfam published figures showing that the 26 richest billionaires on earth own the same wealth as the 3.8bn people who make up the poorest half of the earth’s population. The ratio is 26: 3,800,000,000,000. Some world we live in, when you come to think of it. How did we get it so wrong?

IN January 2019, Oxfam published figures showing that the 26 richest billionaires on earth own the same wealth as the 3.8bn people who make up the poorest half of the earth’s population. The ratio is 26: 3,800,000,000,000. Some world we live in, when you come to think of it. How did we get it so wrong?

Apart from the cost on human life, this imbalance is leading indirectly to the extinction of many animal species and stripping us all of the inheritance of nature. An example is the imminent extinction of pangolins, an entirely harmless mammal native to Africa, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indochina, Taiwan, and China; the Chinese population is all but extinct.