An Oxfam report found similar disparities. It recommends taxing the super-rich enough to fund a clean energy revolution. The authors calculate that a tax of 60% on the incomes of the super-rich 1% globally would generate $6.4 trillion (USD)to finance a transition away from fossil fuels.

As the anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

The rich bear more responsibility and should do more

The disparity between the emissions of the very richest and the rest of the world is astonishing.

• Between 1990 and 2020, global average temperatures increased 0.6 C. Researchers attribute two-thirds of that increase to the wealthiest 10 percent of people on the planet.


• "For example, the study finds

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