Climate Injustise ?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:22 pm by jiyan (Uncategorized, climate injustise)
The average American’s annual carbon footprint — 20.4 tons. The average Chat’s annual carbon footprint is 0.01 tons. [Ref 2] It is around 2,040 times that of someone living in the African nation. Average American’s or the wealthiest countries people will emit as much carbon dioxide (C02) in one day as a African will in an entire year.
Around half of the world’s population — slightly fewer than 3 billion people — survives on less than $2 a day. Overall, the United Nations estimates that the carbon footprint of the world’s 1 billion poorest people (those living on less than $1 a day) represents just 3 percent of the global total.
And yet it’s the world’s poorest who are likely to feel the affects of climate change the most and are less likely to be able to deal with them.
The 80/20 rules will apply which 80 percent of the world’s emissions come from just 20 percent of the inhabitants of the world’s which is wealthiest nations.
The poverty nation who depend most on the land and natural resources for living affected the most as natural disasters mostly affected the land and water.
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