"Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment th

"Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones." If climate is anything to go by, science has had made precious little ground against the forces of greed and denial. But I am interested to see the concept of trust brought in here. We know that high-trust societies have larger GDP, better life expectancy, and more [0]. Last week I spoke with some people about "zero trust" and the menace of the "cashless society" in a programme on Disappearing Worlds [1] - how technology is making things like trust and human contact disappear. Whereas the Nature article places the blame at the feet of the "The Rich" I think more nuance is needed. The crisis is not caused by concentration of capital, but by who has it. We have always had wealth imbalance, rich industrialists and so on. We have not had "techno-elites" and suffered the combination of super-wealthy sociopaths with small world-views getting control of the means of communication, payment and education to such a dangerous degree before. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_societies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie... [1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=25 https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=25