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rich people: top 10 % of the world population is responsible for close to 50 % of global emissions and top 1% was responsible for 25 % of emissions over 1990-2019 (when we knew about climate change) (www.nature.com)
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rich people: top 10 % of the world population is responsible for close to half of global emissions.

25 % of emissions over 1990-2019 (when we knew about climate change) was due to the top 1%.

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[โ€“] enebe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Checking by income (not emissions): "Someone in the 10% of the global income distribution makes $122,100 per year".

~~So I'm just a bit short from there, surely in the top 20%~~ I'm poorer than I thought ๐Ÿ˜‚

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-wealthy-middle-class-poor-make-income-per-year-2021-12

[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn that's $10k a month, that's so much.

[โ€“] enebe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, wait, I got it wrong. I make 1k a month, not 10k ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ I can removed about them then, I'm not even close.

Damn, I didn't thought "top 10%" would be so far.