{"id":31825,"date":"2024-10-31T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=31825"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:47:43","slug":"study-reveals-billionaires-produce-as-much-carbon-pollution-in-90-minutes-as-the-average-person-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/10\/31\/study-reveals-billionaires-produce-as-much-carbon-pollution-in-90-minutes-as-the-average-person-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires produce as much carbon pollution in 90 minutes as the average person in a lifetime, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"why-it-matters\">The world is trying to reduce carbon emissions through renewable energy and other environmentally friendly initiatives. But it seems that one of the best ways to reduce these planet-warming gases would be for billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to stop using their private jets and yachts so much. According to a new report, members of the super-rich create the same amount of carbon emissions in 90 minutes as the average person does in their entire life.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam, a British NGO that focuses on tackling global poverty, has published a report examining carbon inequality. It looks at how the yachts, planes and polluting investments of the world&#039;s 50 richest billionaires are accelerating the climate crisis. <em>(Rob Thubron, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/105382-study-reveals-billionaires-produce-much-carbon-90-minutes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">techspot.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is trying to reduce carbon emissions through renewable energy and other environmentally friendly initiatives. But it seems that one of the best ways to reduce these planet-warming gases would be for billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to stop using their private jets and yachts so much. According to a new report, members of the super-rich will create [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}