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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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Even doing everything you can to "reduce carbon footprints" it's still going to be orders of magnitude larger than a small village farmer in the middle of Nepal.
Doesnt mean it's not worth doing, it just means there's a lot more to be done.
Still though, if you're gonna split up that top 10% into 10 more parts, you will probably once again find that the top 1% is responsible for most of the emissions that the top 10% is responsible for.