A recent study has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for two-thirds of observable climate warming
Scientists Just Found Who's Causing Global Warming
btw the top 10% is 800 million people so if you're from the west you're more than likely part of that figure.
doesn't mean it's your fault but if you're not actively doing something to prevent it then you are part of the problem..
I like to think of it in terms of fault vs responsibility. It’s not our fault, for the most part. But it is our responsibility to do something about it!
I’m hopeful. Renewables are exploding in growth.
Copied from reddit comment
According to https://wid.world/world/#tptinc_p90p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO/last/us/k/x/yearly/t/false/0/200000/curve/false/country , the global 90th percentile income threshold in 2023 is at about $46,7k USD, market xchg rate.
But of course it's likely that if you are from the US your car use and shopping habbits contribute more even if you are below that income level compared to say a European who drives less and buys less.
Yes a very good point, the carbon footprint of the average Canadian is 10x that of the average Albanian.
It's ironic when you think about human history .... at one point in human development, there was a population bottleneck where there were only a few thousand individuals that we are all descended from. It basically means that we owe our present world to the survival of a few thousand people.
Now it seems our species will die out because of the greed of a small percentage of our population.
We came into being because of a few .... and we will die out because of a few.
That few is still 800 million people. Basically anyone in a developed country.
Oh my god you just blew my mind. The US is about 340m people.
I don’t think climate change is going to mean annihilation of the human race on its own. It depends on what the people do when faced with famine on a mass scale. Water wars leading to nuclear annihilation would do it, but there also could be multiple revolts and power struggles over the world. Depending on how those go it could put us into something positive. Not without untold suffering though.
The damage we are creating will take thousands or millions of years to undo .... so the trajectory of problems is bad right now, will get worse in the next few decades and stay that way for a few centuries. That is if we don't figure out ways to make things even more worse.
And if we do get to the point of nuclear war and the inevitable nuclear holocaust after, it will take us a century to survive that, then centuries more to recover from the damage it will cause.
I do have hope that as imaginative and creative beings that we are, we may figure out ways to survive through all that.
However, I am also realistic and know how ignorant and depraved we can become in the face of disaster and our own mortality.
We've survived natural disasters in the past that were no fault of our own.
We don't know if we can survive disasters of our own making.
ngl if humanity gets though the next 100 years, I kinda doubt we can all go extinct from then on.
It'll create a new bottleneck for sure, but I expect there to be a few communities built up by the richest of the rich to survive with as much comfortable as possible. A large number of the survivors will be their serfs, essential staff to maintain their comfort in exchange for a chance to survive.
Pretty much no serious authority on climate predicts that global warming will lead to human extinction. The collapse of what we know as civilisation, perhaps, and even some kind of mass death event, but our species outright ending? Zero chance. Not to say that those who endure as a relict population upon an overheated, polluted, and scarred Earth will be having a great time or anything
"And don't you feel guilty about that one third?" - the 10%
I remember reading something similar a while back, surely with less data available for the study, but it concluded the same and I'm pretty certain that those 10% know it and don't give a flying fuck.
Chances are, you are part of the 10%
To be considered in the richest 10% of the world population, you would need a net worth of approximately $130,000 (as of late 2024). I don't personally know anybody just sitting on 130k of money and assets. If you are, good for you, but many of us are not.
The chances of an average American being in that group is comparatively high compared to much of the world (around 50%), but still on the "Chances are..." forgone conclusion of your comment
In the United States, the top 1 percent of households control 80 percent of company assets — the average person reading this has no way of ending the coal industry's devastating reign over Appalachia, for example. That's a decision to be made by shareholders and executives looming over us from the top of the pyramid.
If you make more than about $40,000 per year you are in that top 10% globally
In other news, water is wet.
Then maybe the ninety percent need to sue the ten percent for threatening their lives???
Where can we all sign up? These parasites need to go
Unfortunately that ten percent is probably most people on here.
