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#References

[1] Nature, 2023. Reducing inequality benefits everyone — so why isn’t it happening? Nature 620 (7974), 468–468. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02551-3

[2] Lusseau, D., Mancini, F., 2019. Income-based variation in Sustainable Development Goal interaction networks. Nature Sustainability 2 (3), 242–247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0231-4

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#inequality #ScientificDebate #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #CascadeOfBenefits #poverty #ClimateChange #WinWin

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The Nature editorial compares the #OpenLetter to "previous efforts — in particular, the 2009 publication of the influential text The Spirit Level by epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
They showed that reducing #inequality has a #CascadeOfBenefits, from better #health to lower #CrimeRates and better #educational outcomes.

The book was a sensation." But it "did not change governments’ approaches to inequality" [1]