Rich People Are Destroying the Planet: Rich people have a carbon footprint 25 times the size of even the typical American.
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Rich People Are Destroying the Planet
https://jacobin.com/2021/11/rich-people-wealthy-household-emissions-fossil-fuels-climate-change
Rich people have a carbon footprint 25 times the size of even the typical American. To tackle climate change, we need to start with fossil capital and the most affluent.
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.