Human activity is causing high rates of biodiversity loss. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the extent to which socioeconomic factors exacerbate or ameliorate our impacts on biological diversity. One such factor, economic inequality, has been shown to affect public health, and has been linked to environmental problems in general. Researchers tested how strongly economic inequality is related to biodiversity loss in particular. They found that among countries, and among US states, the number of species that are threatened or [...]
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