{"id":7223,"date":"2019-04-14T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:33:33","slug":"peak-inequality-a-public-lecture-by-danny-dorling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7223","title":{"rendered":"Peak Inequality: a public lecture by Danny Dorling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no reason to be pessimistic about the future. The UK and the USA are probably at a peak of economic inequality right now.<!--more--> Income inequality will almost certainly reduce in the years and decades to come; decade after decade after decade. And we will slowly learn what most other people in the rich world know, that having more and more money doesn\u2019t make you happier; it doesn\u2019t make your country more sustainable; and it doesn\u2019t solve the problems of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>A public lecture by Danny Dorling, about the book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/peakinequality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peak Inequality<\/a>&#8216;, open to all and organised by Shipley Constituency Labour Party. Held in the Queens Hall, Burley in Wharfedale, on April 13th 2019:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/peakinequality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7233056-peak-inequality-a-public-lecture-by-danny-dorling\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAEdis1wgXm4A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7213\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7213\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-1-654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-1-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-1-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-1-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-1.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peak Inequality: Britain\u2019s ticking time bo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>mb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no reason to be pessimistic about the future. The UK and the USA are probably at a peak of economic inequality right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}