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World's wealthiest at heart of the climate problem

Stevicus

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World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem'

The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.

It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN.

The wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” - contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015.

The authors want to deter SUV drivers and frequent fliers – and persuade the wealthy to insulate their homes well.

The report urges the UK government to reverse its decision to scrap air passenger duty on UK return flights.

And it wants ministers to re-instate the Green Homes Grant scheme they also scrapped recently.

The world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%.

The document has come from the UK-based Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change.

It’s a panel of 31 individuals who study people’s behaviour relating to the environment. They were tasked to find the most effective way of scaling up action to tackle carbon emissions.

Their critics say the best way to cut emissions faster is through technological improvements - not through measures that would prove unpopular.

But the lead author of the report, Prof Peter Newell, from Sussex University, told BBC News: “We are totally in favour of technology improvements and more efficient products - but it’s clear that more drastic action is needed because emissions keep going up.

“We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions.

Poorer nations such as India have consistently argued that they should be allowed to increase their pollution because it’s so much lower per person than emissions from rich nations.

The issue forms part of the tangled tapestry of negotiations behind next week’s climate summit organised by President Biden and the COP climate summit in the UK scheduled for November.

The report said:
“The goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change cannot be achieved without radical changes to lifestyles and shifts in behaviour, especially among the wealthiest members of society.

“If change across society is to be brought about at the speed and scale required to meet agreed climate targets, we need to shrink and share: reduce carbon budgets and share more equally.”
 

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World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem'



The world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%.





The report said:
“The goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change cannot be achieved without radical changes to lifestyles and shifts in behaviour, especially among the wealthiest members of society.

“If change across society is to be brought about at the speed and scale required to meet agreed climate targets, we need to shrink and share: reduce carbon budgets and share more equally.”
So do you think its likely things won't change then?

Btw.... There are around 2,755 $billionaires and 47 million $millionaires
 
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rational experiences

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We all live in a house.
We all drink water eat food and survive.

If you think a lifestyle is more important than life survival it is an agreed human behaviour.

If a human said let me take your house from you. A rich man should be rebuilding a poor man's house. Claiming my house should not be taken from me.

When you are spiritual success is not by destruction. But is by chosen reconstruction.
 

Heyo

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So do you think its likely things won't change then?
Unlikely. Humans don't really process intellectual information. Reactions to climate change will be delayed until we feel it. Without the experience of some extreme weather, climate change is something that happens elsewhere and it is someone else's problem. (Alternatively, some serious carbon taxes will make us feel it in our wallet.)
 

rational experiences

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Human predictive prophetic science stated life living inside it's heavens needed a stable life as did animals.

Life born alive in a stable state as baby. Healthy life returned.

Was a science teaching for humans.

Human animal phenomena attack. Seen. Life mutations already a sacrificed existence SEEN. Life of the newly born gone.

Phenomena unknown. UFO radiation returned from out of space. The reason SEEN.

Space. Vacuum sucks out heat in radiation. It never sucked out the carbon burnt microbe body first in water mass.

Our food life on a cellular level. Bio. Microbes.

Science said the UFO effect either returned from nuclear science as radiation of one or the other effect.

Christ gas radiation amount causing no harm as vacuum womb healed the effect by cooling radiating mass......
Or.
Satan return forming new God earth sink holes.

Never knew until attacked. Attacked the demonstration in science you never controlled natural.

Science knew nuclear was cleaned out of the atmosphere. So they said nuclear was a clean fuel. Yet also knew the UFO attacked life. So said it was not clean fuel after all. It had been cleaned atmospheric as a psychic science advice.

The carbon effect burning microbes by radiation worse than carbon fuel use. As proven.

New science was always spiritual psychic advised spirituality. Like wind power. Like thermal power. Technology to support life itself.

Without damaging consciousness. As humans need spirituality to not want to be angered. Fight argue...be cruel or destructive.

A human aware taught reality for human brothers and sisters.

Money and greed involves who gets the taxes. Is not any answer.

The answer is science as a choice always was.

The rich should put their money where their mouth is. Wanting a better life let cell food as life exist first. Let science be controlled and ordered by a human spiritual life continuance choice only.
 
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