World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report

Carbon emissions from richest 1% pose fatal threat to humanity : Peoples Dispatch

The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population has been responsible for as many carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds of humanity, a new report by Oxfam International has found.  The top 1%, or 77 million people out of over eight billion, accounted for 16% of the world’s total planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. In contrast, it would take someone from the bottom 99% 1,500 years to produce the amount of emissions that the world’s r…

World’s Richest 1 Percent Largely Responsible for Global Warming: Oxfam Report

Goats walk over a barren land near the Afghan border in Balochistan province, Pakistan. Credit: Matiullah Achakzai/ EPA The world’s wealthiest one percent are disproportionately contributing to the climate crisis, with their carbon emissions exceeding those of the poorest two-thirds of humanity, as revealed in a new report by Oxfam International released ahead of the UN climate summit in Dubai. The report, published on 20 November, highlights th…

Richest 1% Emit Same as 66% of World’s Poorest: Oxfam

The level of emission caused by the 1% super-rich in 2019 alone is enough to kill 1.3 million people due to heat.

Carbon Emissions From World’s Richest 1% Will Kill 1.3 Million People by 2030

The Occupy Wall Street movement ushered in a new paradigm in the way people talk about inequality, claiming the world’s wealthiest 1% enjoy political and economic privilege lacked by everyone else.