World News for Canadians

Not news in a traditional sense, but factual and current information about the state of the world that probably fits better here than lemmy.ca's other communities with traffic.

But we live in a world where a minority – the richest 1% – are responsible for more emissions than 66% of the world’s population, polluting and plundering the planet for their own gain. According to Oxfam, these wealthiest 1% own more wealth than 95% of the world’s population but reportedly contribute just 0.3% in taxes

Only 1% of people are responsible for half of global aviation emissions, the vast majority of people (80%) have actually never flown