We can solve this with a tax, you know. Also, this is all your fault for having that nice computer, tablet, and smartphone. Oh, and you have those WiFi lightbulbs? And and Alexa or Google Home device? Even worse!
New inequalities created by climate change and tech, says UN
A new generation of global inequalities driven by climate change and technology could trigger violence and political instability if left unchecked, the United Nations has warned.
Climate change and technology rather than wealth and income are the modern-day wedges that are increasingly dividing the haves from the have-nots, said the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in its 2019 Human Development Report.
These forms of inequality are rising as progress has been made in more traditional measures of inequality such as extreme poverty and disease, it said.
“Under the shadow of the climate crisis and sweeping technological change, inequalities in human development are taking new forms,” the report said.
“The climate crisis is already hitting the poorest hardest, while technological advances such as machine learning and artificial intelligence can leave behind entire groups of people, even countries.”
Allowing these new inequalities to grow could be “extremely dangerous and highly volatile,” said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.
So, obviously, Government must Do Something. Because otherwise
“Across the rich and emerging countries and also developing countries where a middle class has emerged, their reactions are increasingly violent,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in advance of the report’s release.
“If not managed well and practically, it will essentially manifest itself in what we see on the evening news – burning cars, burning buildings, burning infrastructure, millions of people in the streets protesting and overthrowing governments.”
Street protests have filled the news of late, in Hong Kong, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela and elsewhere over an array of issues including rising prices, government policies, corruption and pro-democracy movements.
So……government must control all this so that people do not protest rising prices from government policies (such as gas prices in France from ‘climate change’ policies), government corruption, and, good grief, the protesters might want democracy? That’s horrible!!!!!! We must stop them with more government policies, corruption, and anti-democracy/big government.
