Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
www.theguardian.com
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

Insane statistics. I honestly wouldn’t have imagined it was this much.
We desperately need to get into peoples heads (in particular Gen Z, in the sense that this is an issue they really care deeply about) that climate change is an economic problem, that the rich cannot be negotiated with, and that it’s not the working class that is responsible for overconsumption

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500)

    The reason for the number is probably because it includes everyone making $140,000 a year aka a lot of labor aristocrats. This would include doctors, engineers, software developers, etc.

    It’s really just restating what we already know which is that people who are comfortable in the imperial core (and rich people elsewhere) use way more resources than everyone else.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Man honestly as someone in the U.S. with a college degree who makes ~30k, basically no one except doctors should make 140k. That’s soooooo much money, I genuinely don’t know what the hell you could even do with it.