Wealthiest 10 Percent of Americans Responsible for 40 Percent of U.S. Emissions
“It just seems morally and politically problematic to have one group of people reaping so much benefit from emissions while the poorer groups in society are asked to disproportionately deal with the harms of those emissions,” said Jared Starr, a sustainability scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
@MHowell
This is the same with nearly everything though.
Voters will never vote for poltocans who'd inconvenience Musk or.Taylor Swifts ability to travel around on a private jet, let alone the nearly incompressible emissions from the US War machine
For the new study, researchers analyzed data on emissions and income from 1990 to 2019. Accounting for earnings from investments, they found that not only are the top 10 percent of earners responsible for 40 percent of emissions, but the top 1 percent are responsible for at least 15 percent of emissions. The study, published in PLOS Climate, further found that white Americans have the biggest carbon footprint of any group, while Black Americans have the smallest, a reflection of the racial wealth gap.
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