RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 9 days agoRichest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5Bwww.oxfam.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareNouvellalia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days ago In the US, someone from the 0.1% creates more pollution in 100 days than someone from the bottom half will create over 30 years. one year’s worth of emissions from the richest 1% will cause an estimated 1.9 million excess heat deaths. the richest 1% are responsible for 20% of global warming. Also we must reduce global emissions by 18% in the next five years https://www.unep.org/en/news-and-stories/press-release/new-unep-report-lays-out-emission-cuts-needed-return-15degc So if a 1%er kills 2,000,000 people a year from heat deaths alone, and produces 20% of global warming, and if we don’t reduce global emissions by 20% in the next five years most of the biome dies There is a moral move we are required to take
In the US, someone from the 0.1% creates more pollution in 100 days than someone from the bottom half will create over 30 years.
one year’s worth of emissions from the richest 1% will cause an estimated 1.9 million excess heat deaths.
the richest 1% are responsible for 20% of global warming.
Also
https://www.unep.org/en/news-and-stories/press-release/new-unep-report-lays-out-emission-cuts-needed-return-15degc
So if a 1%er kills 2,000,000 people a year from heat deaths alone, and produces 20% of global warming, and if we don’t reduce global emissions by 20% in the next five years most of the biome dies
There is a moral move we are required to take