Status Quo Capitalism Generating Global Inequality Crisis

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Published on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 by Inter Press Service

In Crisis, The Rich Get Richer
World Inequality Rises Following Failed Economics

by A.D. McKenzie


PARIS - Mansions on one side of the road, and slums on the other. People queuing for food rations, while others drive by in shiny Land Rovers with tinted windows.

These are just some of the sights that have confronted Danielle Nierenberg as she traveled through 30 countries to supervise the Worldwatch Institute’s report titled ‘State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet’.

"You can see the stark differences within a single country very easily, and you see it every day," she told IPS. "In Africa it doesn’t look like the recession has affected the very wealthy. It has affected poor people the most."

Nierenberg was in Paris this week to launch ‘Comment Nourir 7 Milliards d’Hommes’ (How to Feed 7 Billion People), the French edition of the Washington-based think tank’s report. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/07-1

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1. and that's why something very different needs to happen.

nothing the status quo does is ultimately going to crrect the direction of inequality.