According to Shoibal Chakravarty, a researcher at the Princeton Environmental Institute - the world's biggest polluters are also the world's richest people.
“Most of the world’s emissions come disproportionately from the wealthy citizens of the world, irrespective of their nationality. We estimate that in 2008, half of the world’s emissions came from just 700 million people.”
About half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from less than a billion of the world's inhabitants.
Much of this comes in the form of air travel, automobile usage and cooling/heating big houses.
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