There’s this temptation to believe that global warming is only caused by a very small group of unrepentant greedy assholes, when the fact of the matter is that it really is a systemic issue caused by essentially everyone in a moderately developed country.
Sure, most emissions can be traced to a handful of companies, but we’ve quite recently seen what happens when the price of gas spikes even a little bit and people lose their god damn minds. Companies go for cheap polluting practice because consumers demand everything be as cheap as possible.
I read part of a book about grocery stores and it used the term “perpetuator”. It’s not all our fault and we cannot let the corps place all the blame on us, and we can’t place all the blame on the large corps either. We are all perpetuators of the system, some bigger than others. Everyone has a part to do to fix this.
140k/yr USD is still well within the class of people who care. Basically every doctor in America falls into that category.
There’s this temptation to believe that global warming is only caused by a very small group of unrepentant greedy assholes, when the fact of the matter is that it really is a systemic issue caused by essentially everyone in a moderately developed country.
Sure, most emissions can be traced to a handful of companies, but we’ve quite recently seen what happens when the price of gas spikes even a little bit and people lose their god damn minds. Companies go for cheap polluting practice because consumers demand everything be as cheap as possible.
I read part of a book about grocery stores and it used the term “perpetuator”. It’s not all our fault and we cannot let the corps place all the blame on us, and we can’t place all the blame on the large corps either. We are all perpetuators of the system, some bigger than others. Everyone has a part to do to fix this.
That’s income though. The rich don’t have income, they have property. Top 1% wealth is more like $13 million.
That site also says top 1% income is more like 400k (individual) to 600k (household). (Edit: though those are us numbers not global.)
140k is the stat used in the article this post linked