Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief
"For example, the study finds the wealthiest 10% of people – defined as those who earn at least €42,980 (£36,605) per year – contributed seven times more to the rise in monthly heat extremes around the world than the global average. "
How is 42k euro part of the wealthiest 10%?
How is 42k euro part of the wealthiest 10%?
Because there are ~8 billion people and fewer than 1 billion live in developed economies; half of which probably make less than 42k EUR. Out of the developing world, the 1% owns like 90% of domestic wealth, with the next 5-20% living something resembling a "developed" or "middle class" lifestyle, and most of them are also earning far less than 42k EUR...
Do you have any decent link that supports this?
I didn't manage to spot in the study itself, how they calculate this number. If anyone has, please share this part.
Don't forget that really only a small part of the global population lives in the west / "wealthy" countries. Our presumably western perspective is just biased even if we don't like to think so. And then, of those few, a bunch are so much more rich than the others that they skew the average. And half of the people living in those wealthy countries have considerably less than that skewed average.
If you think about it, it helps understanding how absolutely dirt poor literal billions of people really are on the global scale. Even the poors in rich countries don't have it much better.
Exactly, im south american, and in the 3% of earners here (brute), but still not part of that 10%...
This doesn't seem to account for cost of living
Cars, heating and meat consumption will do that. Yeah the top .1% taking there private jets around is doing a lot more damage then your average middle class westerner but that person driving there car and eating beef everyday are doing a lot more damage then your average person living in east and south asia.
I am all for wealth redistribution, but if you redistribute wealth the result would probably be even more CO2 emissions. (At least then, fewer people had to suffer)
Badically. Like, yeah, a few private jets flying around is bad. But can you imagine what twice the people flying around on holidays would mean?
Yeah. Just redistributing isn't enough. We need a change in culture and better education as well. Luckily the culture is already changing despite everything, the old hags currently throwing a tantrum (establishing fascism in the process) just have to finally rot in hell.
