Monday, June 16, 2014
What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change Skeptics
In an op-ed on Quartz, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker says recent attempts to discredit Thomas Piketty's research into income inequality remind him of earlier efforts to deny that climate change is a real threat.
“Given that inequality and climate change are two of the most significant challenges to humanity in this century, it is critical we see the debates surrounding them for what they truly are: enormous struggles over power and possibility,“ he writes....