Tiny Fraction of Global Elites Emit as Much Carbon as Bottom 66 Percent

Critics who rail against the hypocrisy of wealthy global elites jet-setting on carbon-spewing private planes, while pontificating about the need for the rest of us to cut our climate footprints, just got a boost from a new study. It turns out that the world’s richest one percent emit about the same amount of carbon as the world’s poorest two-thirds, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Oxfam International. This means that a small sliver of global elites, or 77 million people, have produced as much carbon as the five billion people that make up the bottom 66 percent by wealth, per the study....