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America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.

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[-] WhollyGuacamole@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Probably because not all of the CEOs all of the enormous corporations, or leaders of the top polluting nations, are in that top 10‰. 10% is just a nice number to use, and I expect that if they went with 15 or 20% then the corresponding amount of pollution they're responsible for would jump up significantly.

[-] WhollyGuacamole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. I apparently can't do math this morning.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

They are pulling up the entire average they have 40% of. They are emitting 6x more than the bottom 90% per capita, so that 6x figure should have been the metric to focus on

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