Tackling inequality key to climate fight - study


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  • Monday, 05 Sep 2022

FILE PHOTO: A view of a slum is seen along a seashore in Mumbai, India, November 28, 2019. Picture taken November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Prashant Waydande/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Tackling inequality is key to securing the public support needed to overhaul the global economy and reverse climate change, an update to the landmark 50-year-old computer simulation of environmental stress has found.

Based on modelling by MIT scientists of a world destabilised by growing consumption, the 1972 "Limits To Growth" simulation has been attacked as flawed by some but applauded by others as prescient of accelerating planetary stress.

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