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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I think we could provide luxury-class TRAIN intercity service at better-than-BIZJET prices and emissions — for the elites.
The rest of us lowly and unimportant proles could still go second or third class intercity train, and be reasonably comfortable.
Sleepers, and inter-class BARRIERS on the TRAINS to keep the riff-raff (you) out of the elite’s exhaulted orbit.
...could all be VERY nice — and these days, NOT very much slower, city center to city center. (’Burbs and “country People” don’t matter, anyway. So, screw ‘em.))
Hitler talked like this. It was always somebody else’s fault.
Polluter elite, ultra-rich, aka jews using up valuable resources.
The language has been adjusted to suit modern bigotries.
I think that CBS put out so much Bull S. that they easily account for 50% of greenhouse gases.
The solution is to make everyone equally poor. Of course, without the rich to provide jobs, food, housing, etc, everyone will starve or freeze to death, but at least there will be equity. And the planet will heal and survive! The poor will then be much happier since everyone will have joined them on the lowest rung of the economic ladder (Exceptions do apply since those making decisions—or rulings—will live in a higher economic situation to assist them in making those decisions).
Utopia will have been achieved!
Harry and Meghan just took a private jet to Vancouver to see a regular season NHL hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the San Jose Sharks.
But Harry doesn’t run the water when he brushes his teeth, so I guess it evens out.
Omitted: comparison with cold-related deaths.
Gore and Kerry and Gates, oh my.
Gore and Kerry and Gates, oh my.
Pussies and weasels and hares, oh my!
I would be mortified to have my name attached as the author of such bovine excretion.
A related CNBC article said the threshold for top 1% worldwide is an income of $140,000. So maybe upper middle class her in the US.
And which is like comparing cargo trucks with horses. It is the % relative to production that must be measured, and the cost of hindering the productive nations upon the poor.
Climate change and illegal immigration. Will there be numerous terror attacks before Gore’s or Obama’s waterfront mansions are flooded?
They could really help if they stopped breathing out co2…
That's a new one.
If you earn $60,000 a year after tax and you don’t have kids, you’re in the richest 1 percent of the world’s population. If you have a household income of $130,000 after tax and you’ve got a partner and one kid, you’re also in the richest 1 percent.Sep 15, 2023
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/15/23874111/charity-philanthropy-americans-global-rich
“A related CNBC article said the threshold for top 1% worldwide is an income of $140,000. So maybe upper middle class her in the US.”
That includes every sitting congressman and senator.
So Al Gore, John Kerry, and Nancy Pelosi are all killing people?
I’d settle for tax the hell out of the Rothschild.
He brushes his teeth?
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