The Great Carbon Divide

An excellent visualisation from The Guardian.

This tackles an essential issue for the world, which will change it utterly over the next few decades - impacting on every student that we teach.

The resource mentions the disproportionate impact of the ‘Polluter elite’

Climate anxiety means different things to different income groups. At the bottom, it means fear of heat and floods. At the top, it means fear of increasingly desperate people. Billionaires often live in protective bubbles maintained at a considerable cost in dollars and emissions. Some are preparing for “the event”, with plans for doomsday bunkers in New Zealand, Nevada and other remote areas. Others blast off the planet in private rockets and talk of colonising space. 

Instead of making every effort to reduce emissions, the rich increase their carbon footprint by putting more distance between themselves and the masses.

I'm constantly reminded of 'Don't Look Up' when I follow such stories on the news.

Credits:

Jonathan Watts Global environment editor. Design by Ellen Wishart, Rich Cousins, Alessia Amitrano and Pip Burkett. Illustration by Ngân Bùi.