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Climate Emission By Wealth by Barry Saxifrage
All the world’s people lined up in order of their annual climate changing CO2 emissions, then divided evenly into groups of 500 million people = 7.5% of global population. Bottom part of chart shows relative per-capita household wealth. Wealthiest 15% have 300 times the available wealth as poorest half of humanity. Read our article on this for details. Chart and article originally published in the Sept/Oct 2008 edition of the Watershed Sentinel
2nd September 2008 · by Barry Saxifrage