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Title: Visualizing The One-Percent's Huge Carbon Footprint
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti ... percents-huge-carbon-footprint
Published: Feb 24, 2022
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2022-02-24 05:04:48 by Horse
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The world's richest ten percent are responsible for an estimated 47 percent share of global CO2 emissions. This is the result of a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, which focused on how alleviating poverty worldwide would impact carbon emissions. As Statista's Florian Zandt shows in the chart below, the difference between the poorest and wealthiest people not only shows in their emission share. On average, a person filed under the lower 50 percent income group only produces about one ton of CO2 per year compared to about 48 tons of carbon dioxide per capita emitted by the wealthiest one percent. 
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
That is wonderful. It is not much but at least it helps. The earth has been loosing CO2 for billions of years. Now earth is CO2 starved and, since it is a food for plants, we would be better off with 2 to 10 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere. At one part in 3,000in the atmosphere, CO2 is a trace gas that no measurable effect on global temperature. In fact, 500 million years ago there was 12 to 20 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature was close to current temperatures.
Eeeeek! Facts. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
#2. To: DWornock, 4um (#1)
At one part in 3,000in the atmosphere, CO2 is a trace gas that no measurable effect on global temperature.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
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