Lucas Chancel: Why Does Helping the Poor Often Hurt the Environment?

Andrew Keen

Dec 04, 2020

On today's episode, Andrew talks with Lucas Chancel about his new book, Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, and the inequalities that become apparent during moments of crisis.

Lucas Chancel is co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and coeditor of the World Inequality Report 2018. A lecturer at Sciences Po, he is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.

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