Richest 1% use their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days.
Richest 1% use their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days.
The richest 1% have used their share of the annual global carbon budget —the amount of CO2 that can be added to the atmosphere wi
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/32713254
It's good that Oxfam analyses and publicises such data - for too long global comparisons focused on national average per-capita. However, maybe even 1% is too large a group that obscures the diversity within - I guess the 77m people (int that analysis) include many relatively old people who are nominally wealthy by owning a house in an expensive city, but don't (any longer?) travel much. Heating such houses emits some tons, but not 76tCO2/yr, a figure which must be pushed way up by the fewer jet-set types.
Are you worried to have your name as your screen name?
What's that got to do with the topic ? But since you ask, no. I came to lemmy from mastodon where many people use their real name. Anyway sometimes I refer to my interactive model, from which site my name is obvious. I respect that some people here need to be anonymous for professional or safety reasons, but would prefer people used at least more memorable names, to encourage careful thinking and sense of community.
"regulate corporations and investors to limit their emissions" cool, so the entire "10 days" hinges on "a rich dude has a huge company that hires 8000 people, let's count the emissions from every single one as the CEOs fault".