Positive, empowering solutions which help to reduce population growth will improve lives and play a vital part in achieving climate justice.It’s essential to address inequality if we’re to control climate change, but that isn’t all that’s needed.Fossil fuel companies are responsible for exacerbating the climate crisis in multiple ways, but it isn’t accurate or useful to hold them accountable for the majority of emissions.
Major studies studies on inequality don’t account for all factors contributing to climate change.Population growth is highest in the lowest income group, who contribute least to climate emissions, but that is unimportant to climate change only if they remain poor.More and more people are escaping poverty, but as they do so, their emissions go up.People in the “bottom 90%” still produce about half of all emissions, so have a very significant impact on climate change.The richest 10% of people globally, however, are not all rich by Global North standards – some people on average incomes in their countries fall into that bracket.There is extreme and indefensible inequality in carbon emissions, with the richest producing vastly more than the poorest.This is a long article, so we’ll summarise it here: Head of Campaigns and Communications Alistair Currie looks at the numbers. It may be a surprise to many people to find out just how great the disparity is – but it may also be a surprise to find that the role of inequity in climate change is more complicated than we might think. It’s no surprise to anyone that the wealthiest produce more emissions than the poorest, and that the poorest suffer more from climate change than the richest. We all know that some people drive climate change more than others.
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