Ah, yeah, I saw the account beg and took it for paywall.
The first paragraph makes it clear that the compared percentages are within countries, not between rich countries and poor countries.
The article also specifically says it’s more about in-country inequality than inequality between countries now:
When climate negotiations began in the 1990s, most of the inequality in people’s carbon emissions was between rich and poor nations. Three decades on, the situation has reversed. Now, most of the inequality in emissions between the rich and poor exists within individual countries.
Can’t read the article due to paywall, but “the top 10%” is definitionally not in “the middle classes”.The Guardian doesn’t have a paywall.
“Middle Class” in the US or Western Europe is generally in the world’s top 10%.
Ah, yeah, I saw the account beg and took it for paywall.
The first paragraph makes it clear that the compared percentages are within countries, not between rich countries and poor countries.
The article also specifically says it’s more about in-country inequality than inequality between countries now:
Yes it is. A large chunk of the richest countries’ middle class is the world’s top 10%. That includes most of the people reading this.
The first paragraph of the article is comparing the top 10% to the bottom 10% within the same country
People often forget that the top 10% include the top 1%.
I wonder how the statistics would look if the top 1% were removed from the equation.