This article makes an interesting contribution to the debate about inequality in a certain society and extend to how environmental policy can get involved. Over the past decades, economic and social development has been a key to indicate a nation’s well-being which inequality and environmental issues were not much concerned. The author’s main contention that if an inequality’s degree is low, there would have high requirement for effective environmental policies. As a result, theses policies will lead to better equality in a society. His argument is persuasive. However, in fact, this claims seem to be oversimplified the problem. Although there is a low degree of inequality and good environmental policy, inequality remains high in a society.
