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The memes of the climate
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Let's talk about this shitty graph, what are the metrics? Show us the numbers, because I bet it will paint a very different picture.
Top 1% emit 50 tons of CO2 per year per person [1].
That's 8 billion * 1% * 50 tons = 4 billion tons per year.
Total annual CO2 emissions are about 35 billion tons [2].
Share of total emissions:
Ultra-rich (top 1%): 11%
Middle class (top 50% excluding top 1%): 77%
Poor (bottom 50%): 11%
Graph looks about right.
I'm not saying the curve is wrong, but when you create a graph like that without putting values on the axis it's inherently misleading. Compare the top 10% of that cohort against the rest and tell me what percent of pollution they create, the issue here is disproportionate impact from the minority.
Top 10% emit 22 tons of CO2 per year per person [1].
8 billion * (10% * 22 tons - 1% * 50 tons) = 14 billion tons of CO2 per year, excluding the top 1%.
Share of total emissions:
Upper middle class (top 10% excluding top 1%): 39%
Lower middle class (top 50% excluding top 10%): 38%
No, it's a common way to present data in a popular scientific context.
No, as the graph shows, the issue is the disproportionate impact from the richest half of the population. Even without the top 1%, the remaining 50-99% percentiles emit far too much. Even without the top 10%, the 50-90% percentiles still emit far too much.
The downvotes on this post just goes to show that lemmy is overrun by a new generation of climate change deniers, denying not the phenomenon as such, but their own culpability in it.
But they'll get what's coming to them.