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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says(www.theguardian.com)

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Not that it isn’t a lot, but the 3.2 trillion figure is a total, not an average; that gives an average of only 8 billion per person. Going off Wealth Shown to Scale, Bezos’ wealth could be equally spread among at least 23 people, and they’d all still be in the top 400.

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