Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ – podcast
by Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay with Aj from Science | The Guardian on (#6GHM1)
A new report from Oxfam has found that the extravagant carbon footprint of the 0.1% - from superyachts, private jets and mansions to space flights and doomsday bunkers - is 77 times higher than the upper level needed for global warming to peak at 1.5C. Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian's Europe environment correspondent Ajit Niranjan, and from wealth correspondent Rupert Neate, about the highly polluting transport habits of the ultra-wealthy
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