Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes
www.theguardian.com
Carbon emissions of richest 10% is up to 40 times bigger than poorest, and ignoring divide may make ending climate crisis impossible, experts say
      •  Zaktor   ( @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ) English
        2•1 year ago

        Ah, yeah, I saw the account beg and took it for paywall.

        The first paragraph makes it clear that the compared percentages are within countries, not between rich countries and poor countries.

        The article also specifically says it’s more about in-country inequality than inequality between countries now:

        When climate negotiations began in the 1990s, most of the inequality in people’s carbon emissions was between rich and poor nations. Three decades on, the situation has reversed. Now, most of the inequality in emissions between the rich and poor exists within individual countries.

  •  AEMarling   ( @AEMarling@slrpnk.net ) 
    3•1 year ago

    “Transport, especially car use, is a major factor in the sky-high emissions of the richest 10%, with these emissions 20-40 times higher than the transport emissions of the poorest 10% in the countries analysed.” This is why EV’s are anything but a solution to the climate crisis.