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Europe’s Elite Emit More Carbon in a Week than Someone from the Bottom Half Does in a Year | Oxfam International (www.oxfam.org)
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  • A person from Europe’s richest 0.1% emits 53x more carbon than a person from the bottom 50%.

  • Since 1990, Europe’s richest 0.1% have increased their share of total emissions by 14%, while the bottom half have cut their share by 27%.

  • To stay within the 1.5°C limit, the richest 0.1% of Europeans would need to cut their per capita emissions by 99% by 2030.

Europe’s wealthiest are driving the bloc’s emissions while ordinary Europeans make the steepest cuts, according to new Oxfam research published ahead of COP30. This research also comes amidst the EU watering down its own climate ambition.

The report: Climate Plunder: How a powerful few Europeans are locking the world into a climate disaster

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[–] Part4 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The last time I checked (which was a while ago) the richest 10% emit more than the poorest 90%. There is little to no chance things have become more equitable in the meantime.

Fossil fuels power capitalism. The actual individual doesn't matter: billionaires, millionaires, the richest 10%, and the poorest 90%, are a function of the economic system.

There is no way to mitigate climate change under capitalism.

The poorest 90% contains the world's armies. But even if you could eliminate them you wouldn't reduce emissions enough to stop catastrophic climate change.