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yoshhash t1_j5t20zh wrote

can OP or anyone who knows please explain how and why this trend is occurring? Specifically I mean the premise that high income emission is plummeting, and middle income is growing quickly? I am going to guess that some of the high income group is faster to get super high efficient houses and appliances, but what about the super fast spending, world travelling, high powered sportscar and yacht owning, large living subset? Also why would middle income be increasing their footprint?

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raff7 t1_j5t33fc wrote

It also might just be caused by an increase in the number of high-mid income individuals in the planet

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Serpent90 t1_j5t2q1z wrote

I believe the graph expresses CO2 emissions of each income level as a percentage of the total.

On a global scale it means that more poor people are starting to live in industrialized nations. As opposed to living on a farm without electricity.

It doesn't mean that the rich are producing less CO2. They can be producing more, but a larger part of the total is made by other income levels.

Also, given that the rich can hide their income with tax evading tricks, and that a lot more CO2 is produced by industry than individuals anyway, that whole graph isn't particularly useful.

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Guamdiggity t1_j5t47vd wrote

Looking at the years, my first thought driving this is vehicle ownership. In general though I’d guess the relative nature of poverty and the increasing population sizes in the middle brackets worldwide. I really think it’s major problem is not accounting for population size changes or total CO2 output changes.

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goodluckonyourexams t1_j5t6fb5 wrote

dirty production goes to the poorer countries? and becomes less dirty, while they build up their dirty

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