To belong to the top 10%, an individual must earn about $65,500 per year (around $5,460 per month). To reach the top 1%, the threshold rises to about $250,300 annually ($21,860 per month). Unsurprisingly, most of the population earning at these levels is concentrated in Europe, North America, and Oceania.
That’s not high income groups, though. It’s not high income to make 65k in America. No way are you burning more than rich anyone else in any even developing country.
You don’t think someone making 65k living with a smart phone, car, AC, electric heat, using goods like toilet paper, hot water, plastic, crafted metals, etc. produces more pollution than someone in the 90th percentile wealth in a developing country?
The way to know where you are in the pollution impact is if you drive a car you’re in the top 10%. If you regularly fly you’re in the 1%, and if you fly a private jet you’re in 0.1%
Btw there’s a good chance that you’re in that 10%
Nothing econ good can’t solve. For. The. Better.
https://wir2026.wid.world/insight/global-economic-inequity/ (Figure 1.4)
That’s not high income groups, though. It’s not high income to make 65k in America. No way are you burning more than rich anyone else in any even developing country.
You don’t think someone making 65k living with a smart phone, car, AC, electric heat, using goods like toilet paper, hot water, plastic, crafted metals, etc. produces more pollution than someone in the 90th percentile wealth in a developing country?
This.
The way to know where you are in the pollution impact is if you drive a car you’re in the top 10%. If you regularly fly you’re in the 1%, and if you fly a private jet you’re in 0.1%
Why rich people use so much more energy: It’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/20/21184814/climate-change-energy-income-inequality