It’s official: 2014 was the warmest year recorded since human beings started keeping records in the 1880s. Although land temperatures were not the highest, and although it was not the warmest year on record for the contiguous US, the overall land and ocean temperatures across the planet were the highest.
Oxfam has just published a report on growing income inequality in the world and the results are depressing. Last year, 85 individuals at the top held the same wealth as the bottom half of the global population (3.5 billion people). This year, it took just 80 people at the top to equal the bottom half. The trend is clear and it is accelerating.
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