Book Blog
Excerpts from the book ‘CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO’ covering the science, technology, economics, and politics of climate change.
by Mathew Hampshire-Waugh
The Two Ten-Percents
For each person earning over $16,000 per year in the richest top 10% of the world there is someone stuck in the bottom 10% earning less than $1,000 per year. As everyone rightfully strives for a top 10% lifestyle emissions could double to over 100 billion tonnes per year and lock-in unknowable damage unless we rapidly transition to a net-zero system.