Posted on 11/21/2023 2:31:33 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The "polluter elite" are disproportionately driving climate change, according to a new report — with the wealthiest 1% of people in the world putting out as much carbon pollution as the poorest two-thirds.
The report, by The Guardian, the international charity Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute, found that climate change and "extreme inequality" have become "interlaced, fused together and driving one another."
The report also found that the richest 10% percent of people worldwide made up roughly half of emissions that year.
"It would take about 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year," Chiara Liguori, Oxfam's senior climate justice policy adviser said. "This is fundamentally unfair."
Oregon State University ecology professor William Ripple, who is also the director of the Alliance of World Scientists, told CBS News that the report's methodology and findings are "broadly consistent with some recent peer-reviewed scientific literature on this topic."
"Carbon inequality and climate justice are major issues," he said. "To address climate change, we'll need to dramatically reduce inequality and provide support and climate compensation to less wealthy regions."
The Guardian and Oxfam report called for a number of steps to help humanity "break free from the climate and inequality trap," including a transition to renewable energy sources. It also suggested a 60% tax on the income of the worlds wealthiest 1%, which the report calculated would lead to a 700-million-ton reduction in global emissions.
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Or, emitting enough CO2 to grow grain to feed X million people. All in how you look at it.
How much carbon are all the third world “immigrants” generating by invading first world countries?
I know how to solve the problem - Quit doing reports!
Some people need to have their calculator taken away.
Umm, no. They are non-issues. On the other hand, lies by liberals are a major issue.
Start with fraudulent assumptions, mix in fraudulent data, end up with fraudulent results…
Simple solution: Strip the wealthy of all their money and put them out on the streets with the tent dwellers.
Yep, that'll do it.
This is bull. How many billionaires are there? If they lived on 747s they would not come near equaling the CO2 output of the lowest producers. There are 3 billions of them.
Don’t think for a second that such a tax wouldn’t be adjusted down to go after the middle classes. Eff the climate grifters
How stupid are the “well paid” brilliant.
We’re debating at most a 0.01% increase in CO2 since measureme r became possible.....from 0.03 to 0.04% of the atmosphere. If there was just something like trees or plants that could be employed to reduce it........
Exactly. The biggest, quickest CO2 reduction we could enact would be deporting 40 million illegal aliens and sealing the border.
That’s been my thesis all along...more people = more food = more co2 by necessity
Maybe they should quit talking so much.
These morons probably think the atmosphere comprises mostly CO2, when in actuality it is 0.04%; as in four out of every 10,000 molecules. 🙄
See the BS (CBS)?
CBS
COMPLETE BS
Make it illegal for the “elite” to purchase or use air purifiers. Once they drop dead, problem solved!
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