you shall know them by their carbon footprints

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity

the numbers outlined here don’t seem too far off when you start doing the math and they’re kind of mind-boggling. i’d be super interested in seeing the methodology here and what’s going on under the hood. if you were going to pick on something here, i suspect it’s the fact that the methodology builds the answer. but then again, there’s plenty of historical data on this front so that seems largely moot. at this point we’re really just knuckling down on how much.