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…Americans are the Villains… Donn Dears April 8, 2022 Americans are the villains enabling climate change. A new study, Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions, was summarized as follows: “Wealth and income are disproportionately distributed among the global population. … Consumption patterns and consumption-based carbon footprints, result in carbon inequality. Due to persistent inequality, millions of people still live in poverty today.” There is a Marxist tone to the statement, “Disproportionately distributed”. The example they use? “The carbon footprint of a person living in sub-Saharan Africa is 0.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide (tCO2). Meanwhile, the average US citizen produces 14.5 tCO2 per year.” Getting to the point, the lead author of the study said: “The inequality is just insane. If we want to reduce our carbon emissions, we really need to do something about the consumption patterns of the super-rich.” Dr. Hubacek, an author of the study said: “The study not only includes direct emissions, [e.g., heating of homes] but [also] the embodied carbon emissions in the products people buy. So it’s taking account of the entire global supply chains to calculate those carbon emissions.” This map from the study includes embedded emission, i.e., from imported goods.
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