Mary Hilton on Nostr: Eat the rich, tax them out of existence: " They found the wealthiest 10% in the US, ...
Eat the rich, tax them out of existence:
" They found the wealthiest 10% in the US, households making more than about $178,000, were responsible for 40% of the nation’s human-caused, planet-heating pollution. The income of the top 1% alone – households making more than $550,000 – was linked to 15% to 17% of this pollution. "
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/business/rich-americans-climate-footprint-emissions/index.html"Globally, the planet-heating pollution produced by billionaires is a million times higher than the average person outside the world’s wealthiest 10%
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