World's richest 1% emitting enough carbon to cause heat-related deaths for 1.3 million people, report finds
World's richest 1% emitting enough carbon to cause heat-related deaths for 1.3 million people, report finds
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World's richest 1% emitting enough carbon to cause heat-related deaths for 1.3 million people, report finds
...and? We know, they don't care.
When will the time come when the rich are back on the menu?
When corn won't grow, perhaps we eat some grilled billionaire ribs
140k/yr USD is still well within the class of people who care. Basically every doctor in America falls into that category.
There's this temptation to believe that global warming is only caused by a very small group of unrepentant greedy assholes, when the fact of the matter is that it really is a systemic issue caused by essentially everyone in a moderately developed country.
Sure, most emissions can be traced to a handful of companies, but we've quite recently seen what happens when the price of gas spikes even a little bit and people lose their god damn minds. Companies go for cheap polluting practice because consumers demand everything be as cheap as possible.
That's income though. The rich don't have income, they have property. Top 1% wealth is more like $13 million.
That site also says top 1% income is more like 400k (individual) to 600k (household). (Edit: though those are us numbers not global.)
I think this works as a reminder.