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World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What, the richest 1% only use 36.5x more carbon than average? I would have expected more. But I guess top 1% globally isn't too rare in the US, about a net worth of $870k. That puts about 20% of Americans in the top 1%.

[–] hark 3 points 6 hours ago

That's a great point. The 1% vs 99% discourse was introduced during the great recession, and while it's a nice quick shorthand, the literal figure of 1% really does spread out the blame more than it should. It's actually a much smaller percentage of people who are sucking up so many resources and who are the biggest cause of misery on Earth. That just makes the fact that we're forced to cater to them even more striking.