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Your source also says 'The richest 10 percent accounted for half (50 percent) of emissions.'
by westmeal 3y ago
Your source also says 'The richest 10 percent accounted for half (50 percent) of emissions.'
- eynsham 3y agoRight, well, again, it would be very hard to meaningfully respond to climate change ignoring half of emissions. It’s plausible that very little should be asked of the bottom half, who contribute under ten per cent of emissions if we follow Oxfam’s methodology.⁰ That would exclude nearly everybody in the West, though. And I take it that people on HN do not mean the global middle class when they say ‘middle class’. 0: https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621551/cr-climate-equality-201123-en.pdf https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10...