Business, homes and cows damage the environment. A report from a charity said billionaires also cause damage. The average billionaire creates three million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This is a million times more than an average person creates. Billionaires create as much CO2 as France.
Luxury yachts and private jets mean billionaires have a huge carbon footprint. The charity said: "The…growing responsibility of wealthy people for overall emissions is rarely discussed…in climate policy making." It added: "Billionaires have a huge responsibility for…climate breakdown. They have escaped accountability."
Try the same news story at these levels:
Billionaires' CO2 Emissions - Level 1, Billionaires' CO2 Emissions - Level 2 or Billionaires' CO2 Emissions - Level 3
Sources- https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/07/world/billionaires-greenhouse-gases-climate-intl
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/super-richs-carbon-investment-emissions-equivalent-to-whole-of-france
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/07/single-billionaire-produces-million-times-more-emissions-average-person-oxfam
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