The prosperous polluters: 20 billionaires with high carbon footprint
The rising level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been a point of concern for decades now and curbing carbon footprint, the total amount of greehouse gases emitted by an individual, has been looked at as a way of combating the onslaught of the heat-trapping gases.
Like other things, there is a vast difference between the carbon footprint of a layman and the financially well-off tier of society.
A calculation by The Conversation has listed 20 billionaires and the carbon footprint that resulted out of their activities in 2018 by using data to estimate the annual CO2 emissions of each house, aircraft, vehicle and yacht owned by these moguls.
Let's take a look at who these prosperous polluters are:
(Net worth of the billionaires are as per Forbes's real-time billionaires' list on Feb 23.)
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