Quote: “”The wealthiest tenth of U.S. households are the source of 40 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published in the journal PLOS Climate.””
Quote: “”The wealthiest 1 percent of households were responsible for between 15 percent and 17 percent of emissions.””
40 percent of US climate emissions attributed to richest households: study
I started thinking about this and guessed that some – probably more than the average – of the GHG emissions were from travel, by airplane, cruise ships and automobiles. Especially if the family has a lot of cars and they use them a lot, day-to-day.
