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Robert Alexander/Getty ImagesTo do this, the researchers analyzed huge datasets spanning 30 years to connect financial transactions to carbon pollution. 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. But a household making money from the hospital industry would need to bring in $11 million to produce the same amount of planet-heating pollution. Identifying the main actors behind the climate crisis is vital for governments to develop policies that cut planet-heating pollution in a fair way, he added. “At the moment, the way the economy works is that it takes money and turns it into climate pollution that is destabilizing life on Earth,” Nicholas said.
Persons: CNN —, you’ve, it’s, , Jared Starr, Robert Alexander, ” Starr, Starr, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Paul, ” Nicholas Organizations: CNN, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Santa, Santa Fe Municipal Airport, Lund University, Rutgers University, Oxfam, Locations: Santa Fe, Santa Fe , New Mexico, Sweden
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