The world's wealthiest people use their carbon budget by January 10
If every person on Earth were granted an equal share of the remaining greenhouse gas budget, the top one percent would exhaust theirs in just ten days.
The environmental impact of the global elite is so concentrated that the wealthiest one percent of the population consumes their annual fair share of carbon emissions before the first two weeks of January have passed. This disparity highlights a shift in climate research, where the primary gap in environmental responsibility is no longer seen as a divide between wealthy and developing nations, but rather between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else.
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