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Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ (www.carbonbrief.org)

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Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

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[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Note that "wealthiest 10%" here means anyone that makes €42,980 ($48,675 USD) or more. Which includes most "middle class" Americans.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I just realised that we should also keep in mind that the time-frame of this study is several decades, so we are talking about about an average through the decades.

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