A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for an astonishing two-thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically, that small minority of the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate change as the entire lower-earning 90 percent of the planet.
Article: Quantification of how emission inequality translates into unequal accountability is lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disproportionately contribute to the increase in mean temperature and frequency of extreme events. www.nature.com/articles/s41 ...
-- Nature Climate Change (@natclimate.nature.com) May 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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#16: Hi Nixon: You said it-- and the pollution is diabolical. The poor people of Senegal, where GDP per capita = $1463.19, are extracting gold for their Western masters, exposing themselves to dangerous mercury poisoning for slave wages. Below is how mercury toxicity affected a pregnant mother's child in Indonesia (Source: Pulitzer Center):
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