Those who serve the most, discharged the most – Romsdals Budstikke

Two researchers at the University of Oslo has looked at the relationship between income and CO2 footprint, the type of the class struggle.

“We’ve tried to work on how the carbon footprint varies for different income groups, and have come to realize that it in Norway is almost one-to-one relationship between income and emissions,” says phd candidate Elisabeth T. Isaksen. Together with Patrick A. Narbel, she has published the results in an article in the journal Ecological Economics.

In 2014 had the 10 per cent richest households in the Uk is 2.9 times higher income than the 10 percent at the bottom. The results of the researchers indicates thus that this group is rich pollute three times as much as the poor.

This is an argument for more progressive taxation. In addition to reducing economic inequality would such a tax reduce emissions, ” says Anders Skonhoft, who is a professor in economics at NTNU.

– It is not so that everyone has just as much to blame for the greenhouse gas emissions. The rich emit much more than the poor. This is an aspect that rarely or never are up in the klimadebatten, ” he says.