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And just ten days in, folks - for the top 1%. It seems the richest 0.1% needed only three.
While, ironically, the immediate climate crisis affects the poor and marginalized. Then when they come knocking on our door for help, we're told by certain loud voices that it's the immigrants who are at fault.
When the people wake up, I can't imagine what they'll do to the empathy-starved elite. It won't be pretty.
Note that the world's top 1% is 83 million people, which includes way more than 1% of the population of places like the US and western Europe.
If you're a "middle class" homeowner in a high cost-of-living area, you're part of this statistic.
How dare you question your social betters.
Now go back to sorting your recycling.
Yet my neighbor shamed me for riding a motorcycle once this year
To give this some context, to be in the richest 1% for income, you need to earn about $80k USD equivalent per year or have a net wealth of about $1.2Million USD equivalent.
https://daadscholarship.com/how-much-money-need-to-earn-to-join-top-1-of-the-world-in-2025/
Our annual emissions per person for a sustainable emsiions budget is aboit 2-3t per year. Mostly were relying on the poor to do their bit eg the average Ethipoan emits aboit 0.2t per year. The average American about 15t.
Anyone who owns a large dog, or flys, or eats lots of beef, or drives a car is emitting morw then theiir share
We could start by banning all flying.
As Professor Kevin Anderson has talked of often, if we had the richest 10% live like the average European we could cut emissions by 40%, not enough but a good start and could be easiely implemented in a month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
For their lifetime, tbh.
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.
The world's richest 1 % have a net worth of just over 1 million USD or more. The world's richest 10 % have a net worth of around 83 000 USD or more.
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