The billionaires are some serious carbon hogs

Although, you know, they do so much for the rest of us

Climate change is everyone’s problem, but not everyone equally shares the blame for rising global temperatures. A new analysis from Oxfam reveals the outsized contribution from the richest portion of the world’s population.

The stunning findings, published January 9, show that the super-rich exhausted their annual carbon budget—the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while staying within 1.5 degrees of global warming—within the first 10 days of 2026. For the richest 0.1%, it only took three days. - Gizmodo