[tarcar]

The title is editorialized, the original title is "Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance" and the abstract says "In 2019, fully 40% of total U.S. emissions were associated with income flows to the highest earning 10% of households".

[somedude895]

"associated with income flows"

Yeah so the editorialized title is ignorant at best and deliberately misleading at worst. I've flagged it.

[refurb]

I mean that seems entirely intuitive. Most income flows involve emissions.

So the highest income have the highest emissions from income flows.

Did the authors somehow think this wasn’t true?

[suckitsam]

"Top X% of earners/producers responsible for the top Y% of production/expenditures/consumption" is a whole genre.

It's great because the top 10% are bad and the rest of us are good.

I'll hide under my bed (where I recycle my straw wrappers) if you show me global numbers.