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Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
(www.carbonbrief.org)
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Every day we find out how much better the world could be if we'd already killed the rich.
I'm not sure you fully appreciate how suicidal that sentiment is.
Allowing the rich to control the world has proved pretty suicidal.
Anyone who makes more than about $40,000 a year is in that top 10% globally
Do you have a decent link to corroborate that?
It’s in the linked article. Someone quoted it in this thread.
I know that in the article they mentions €42,980 and I appreciate carbon brief. Still, I tried to find in the study itself how they calculated it, but somehow I didn't manage to. This is why I asked for another link.
https://wid.world/ has all the data you’re looking for
Thank you very much but it looks like they don't have what I am looking for. I followed several path in More Indicators and Other Indicators but everything that comes out is by country and/or percentages and at my most hopeful moment I got:
Anyways, thanks again!