• Skua@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    10% of the world is eight hundred million people, so it definitely can’t all be private jets and yachts. That’s the entire population of the EU and US added together. That’s not to suggest that yachts or private planes should be off the hook, of course, as the previous chart does show that they’re utterly awful. It just means that there’s too many people included in “10% of the world” for it to be the only part

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      1 year ago

      I agree. That just something that stood out to me about the graphs. The majority of the emissions of the very richest people seem to be from luxury type of travel.