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How much carbon do the super-rich already burn in 2025? | A report by UK-based NGO Oxfam says the world's super-rich have already used up their fair carbon budget for 2025 (www.climatechangenews.com)
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Based on data from 2019, the anti-poverty charity has estimated that the 77 million “super-rich” people in the global top 1% of earners – whose average income is $310,000 per year – use 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide each in just ten days. In contrast, it takes those in the world’s poorest 50% – 3.9 billion people – nearly three years to pollute that much.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

They need it to make all those amazing jobs!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you willingly aren't voting against the rich, you can get fucked, fucking class traitor.