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World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam (www.theguardian.com)
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The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found.

Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam.

The charity said the worst effects of the emissions would be faced by those who had done the least to cause the climate crisis,

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

If humanity was a just another species of our size, its sustainable population would count half a million individuals. Photosynthetic primary productivity calculations put a hard ceiling at about half a billion. I think a safe long term population will be less than a hundred million. At a roughly Edo period Japan technology level.

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