• OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Edit: Note that this article is over 8 years old.

    I had to look it up, but In 2021 the top 10% were earning about $120K/year.

    Also, the guardian misrepresented the study in their title. The study is about “lifestyle emissions” The top 10% don’t produce 50% of all global emissions.

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      11 months ago

      You can find the updated report here:

      https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality

      According to that about half of the top 10% lived in the US and EU in 2015. With especially China, but also countries like India having seen massive economic growth that share likely went down a lot. Looking at the Guardian article that is interesting as they position that as a rich country vs poor country problem, which is not entirely true.

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      That top 10 percent figure is for USA. This is talking about world wide, so likely the top 10 percent is for a lot of people in the USA, and other western countries…There are a lot of people in 3rd world countries that don’t contribute any emissions compared to the average low income person in a western country.