The wealthiest 10% are responsible for 1/2 of global CO2 emissions

[applegrove]

The wealthiest 10% are responsible for 1/2 of global CO2 emissions. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop21-richest-10-per-cent-produce-half-the-world-s-co2-emissions-a6756511.html #climatechange

Oxfam graphic showing the poorest 50% is responsible for ~10% of total lifestyle consumption emissions.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick

[roamer65]

2. Not having children in the developed nations makes a big, BIG difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children#:~:text=Having%20one%20fewer%20child%20will,of%20CO2%2Dequivalent%20per%20year

Not having children is the greatest gift you can give to your planet.

[applegrove]

4. And when women have a certain threshold of education and access

to birth control and the right to choose who, when, if to marry, anywhere in the world, they have 1.7 children.

[roamer65]

5. Or less...like Japan.

Women need more education and true equal rights, IMO.

Fuck all this fascist anti-abortion bullshit.

[applegrove]

6. Did not know that. Thanks.

[roamer65]

7. 1.26 in Japan in 2022.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-birth-rate-record-low-population-aging-ade0c8a5bb52442f4365db1597530ee4#

[applegrove]

8. Of course they have a well known problem with not enough young

people. Did not know their birth rate was so low. Makes sense.

[Meadowoak]

13. +1

[unc70]

3. Pareto's Law

Also known as the 80-20 rule.

[brooklynite]

9. All that does is show their assertion in graphic form.

Someone should provide the supporting data.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. You have some reason to disbelieve the assertion?

I'm surprised its only 50% myself

[brooklynite]

19. It seems less likely that the people in western nations...

…have substantially different usage levels and more likely that the usage level of the world’s poor is substantially lower because they can’t afford energy. I assume the point of the report isn’t to suggest that energy should be cheaper?

[orthoclad]

14. Oxfam report here:

https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621149/bp-the-inequality-virus-250121-en.pdf , p21

The richest 10% of the global
population accounted for 52% of the carbon emissions added to the atmosphere
between 1990 and 2015 – depleting by around a third the total amount of carbon that can
be added if global heating is to be kept within the 1.5C° goal of the Paris Agreement. The
richest 1% were responsible for 15% of emissions during this time – more than twice as
much as the poorest half of humanity. 85
...
85 T. Gore. (2020). Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the
COVID-19 recovery. Oxfam International. https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confrontingcarbon-inequality

Wealth inequality is the dominant contributor to the greatest issue facing global humanity: climate breakdown.

This Oxfam material jibes well with known measures of wealth inequality, such as:
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US data, from the Congressional Budget Office.

[brooklynite]

17. "404: Page not found"

[orthoclad]

20. I had no trouble reading and copying it

[orthoclad]

21. You mean the reference link, not the quoted?

Here
https://webassets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/Confronting-Carbon-Inequality.pdf

[Blues Heron]

10. just like booze - the thirstiest ten percent drink half of all booze

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Not at all surprising, makes perfect sense

Wealth = Fossil Fuel Consumption

They are literally one and the same.

[NickB79]

15. Just so you know, most Americans and Europeans are in that 10%

10% of the global population is 800 million people. Even someone classified as below the poverty line in the US would rank in the top 25% globally for wealth.

If you drive a car and can afford to eat beef several times a week, you're likely in the 10%.

[applegrove]

16. That is a wake up.

[brooklynite]

18. Thank you...

I suspect most people didn’t dig into the data and didn’t see “in the world” Before leaping to a standard “bad rich Americans” rant.

To make it to the wealthiest 10% in the world, you need to have an individual net wealth of US$138,346

https://www.mpamag.com/nz/news/general/youre-probably-in-the-top-10-wealthiest-in-the-world-heres-why/422802

[FakeNoose]

22. When will those oversized gas-guzzling SUVs become permanently outlawed?