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Rich People Are Destroying the Planet: Rich people have a carbon footprint 25 times the size of even the typical American. (jacobin.com)
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[โ€“] mr_washee_washee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

and a typical american has a carbon footprint of 50 times that of an african or asian, so an american rich person is 600x is more polluting than the average world citizen.

[โ€“] da_g@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago

They are more than 25 times less tho, I think more of a problem are poor uneducated country, I saw inimmaginabile things there