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Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. (www.oxfam.org)

submitted 4 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For perspective, that's over 400,000x as much. As in 40,000,000%.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

When no one was looking, Lex Luthor polluted forty million percent more than an average person. He polluted 40,000,000% more. That's as many as four tens (times a million)%. And that's terrible.