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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At least they are not killing us with CO2. Co2 is such a small content of our atmosphere that it’s not worth considering. Besides CO2 is what makes up plant food.
At least they are not killing us with CO2. Co2 is such a small content of our atmosphere that it’s not worth considering. Besides CO2 is what makes up plant food.
At the top of that list is Carlos Slim Helu, who according to Forbes has a net worth of $94.7 billion. He was followed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and luxury retail magnate Bernard Arnault.
Another front opens in the war against the rich
Can I have some of the loot, 4 or 5 million should be more than enough, after all their talking billions I’m sure.
Emit away, rich people. Global warming is good. Only shut your damned mouths, already, woke-ocrats.
GIGO
EVERY ACCURSED TIME.
I thought they were worried about over-population?
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More disparaging of the wealthy as a way to march to “equity.”
More disparaging of the wealthy as a way to march to “equity.”
Just doing my part to stave off the coming Ice Age for as long as possible.
Them Hamas PR folks report the craziest stuff.
“I don’t understand”
Listen to your leaders. We will do the understanding for you.
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