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tl;dr - authors estimate that millionaires will account for >70% of the remaining carbon we can emit while still staying under 1.5 C. Among billionaires, yachts account for over 60% of their annual emissions.

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  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    [Billionaire yacht ownership] implies a contribution to climate change that is up to 6500 times greater for these individuals than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per capita and year, or up to 300,000 times greater than the contribution of the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year

    All that so they can go putting around the water

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