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This has been reported in the news but is short enough (12 pages) to be readable by anyone, and should be a wake-up call to some. Anyone above 38k USD per year
by cmehdy 6y ago
This has been reported in the news but is short enough (12 pages) to be readable by anyone, and should be a wake-up call to some.
Anyone above 38k USD per year of gross earnings falls within the top 10%, and for North America (US & Canada) the equivalent-CO2 emissions per capita[0] are between 50% and 300+% higher than EU countries, which means we the 10%-related emissions are overwhelmingly related to a population within which HN is likely to be a subset.
For anyone in a rush, the summary on page 2 is pretty decent. A couple more pages (3 and 4) give a fuller overview of the situation. The subsequent pages go further into a breakdown and a bit of a "now what?", which is in line with the last bits of the summary.
[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-footprint-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-fo...