Based on data from 2019, the anti-poverty charity has estimated that the 77 million “super-rich” people in the global top 1% of earners – whose average income is $310,000 per year – use 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide each in just ten days. In contrast, it takes those in the world’s poorest 50% – 3.9 billion people – nearly three years to pollute that much.