Secondo il rapporto, il 10% più ricco dell’Irlanda produce quasi la stessa quantità di carbonio del 50% dei redditi più bassi
https://www.thejournal.ie/someone-in-irelands-richest-1-produces-14-times-the-emissions-of-someone-in-the-bottom-50-6859962-Oct2025/
di Banania2020
32 commenti
But remember, it’s your own carbon footprint you should be most concerned about….
ok
Glad I switched to those biodegradable straws
A lot of wealthy people flying around the world many times per year without a care in the world
I’ll keep taking my diesel car to drop the plastic bottles off so.
But you are at fault for using plastic straws, remember that.
I wonder what the figures look like within that 10%
I have no kids or ever will the bloodline ends with me i will have a Net Zero carbon output after my death. Any and all of you cunts that have kids will have an infinitely worse carbon footprint than i ever had. So with that in affect i’ll drive my fuck off diesel jeep and fly all over the world eat my massive steaks and gorge on succlent meals until i pop off to the underworld.
The single worst thing you can do for carbon footprint is creating more footprints and multiplying it.
Hey rich people, stop using your money for holidays! Be miserable like the rest of us!
In other news, water is wet
There’s only one solution, and it’s not popular.
Tax tax and more tax.
I’m OK with that provided it’s only targeting the rich and their wastefulness.
The problem is the government always tends to catch everyone else in the crosshairs as well – including those who are just struggling to get by. And the rich then use their wealth to hire some clever accountants to get around the taxes.
I think we need to start taxing the use of an accountant to manage your finances to be honest. We need drastic measures to close the loopholes.
I thought it was the cows fault?
The actual report can be found [HERE ](https://www.oxfamireland.org/sites/default/files/2025-10/carbon-inequality-report-1-1.pdf)for anyone who is interested.
Maybe the NTA shouldn’t have banned e-scooters on public transport???? I’m Another car on the road unecessarily.
But it’s the cows farting who’s at fault 🤠😮
Is there any argument against either banning or taxing private jet flights at a punitive rate(say 100x the offset of their carbon footprint)? Ideally do it at an EU level but is there any reason why Ireland cant do it?
They have a picture of a private jet, but the top 10% of income earners is about 386,000 people in 2022, who earn from about €70k upwards.
Taking from the report itself ([here](https://www.oxfamireland.org/sites/default/files/2025-10/carbon-inequality-report-1-1.pdf))
>”based on 2022 data, individuals with income levels in the top 10% in Ireland emit over a quarter of consumption-based carbon emissions (27%). . Individuals in the middle 40% income bracket emit 41%, while people with income levels in the bottom 50% emit only 31% of total consumption-based emissions”
Revenue data on distribution of individualised gross income [here](https://www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/documents/statistics/income-distributors/individualised-gross-income.pdf).
They could be calculating it another way – they don’t set it out in the report, which is pretty standard practice for Oxfam and these headline grabbing reports.
If you look at it by gross income (instead of # of earners), you’re talking people earning from €200k and above. Well off, but not private jet well off (think, your dentist).
For example if they said the “top 10% of households”, you’d be talking about households with near enough €250k of gross income, according to the CSO ([here](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-silc/surveyonincomeandlivingconditionssilc2022/householdincome/))
“Lies, damn lies and statistics…” Failure to properly cite their data undermines their argument – they could be roping in everyone earning >€70k to capture a bigger haul of carbon emissions, but stick a picture of a jet on the report.
No doubt the uber rich contribute more individually than any of us, but the reality is that > income = > emissions. Try “typical Irish person on the dole versus person in Sudan” for example.
Yet we pay carbon tax
I’m in college and I’m seeing a good 40% of my class going on 5 trips abroad each year – so at least 10 flights.
I’ve been on one, and went on zero last year. And I went to private school.
Some people my age think spending a grand a year on Ryanair tickets is a personality trait (or just spending money in general)
Ok now tell us what countries produce the most carbon…
One thing a lot of these posts forget is that those 10% and their activities go into the economy.
Private jets have to be built by someone, you have to store and maintain them, you have to crew them.
All those jobs are not being done by the 10%.
So while that 10% of the population are generating more carbon than the lower 50%, they are also employing a lot of those in the lower 50%.
They don’t say what the 10% are though. It’s probably people who earn 70-80k plus which is modest enough. Basically 2-3 trips (mixture of short and long).
Yet another reason to increase their taxes
What percentage of Irelands richest 10% have ever set foot in a private jet I wonder. Bit silly to include that example
Can we tax the shit out of SUVs, range rovers and those goddamn American fucking pick ups please ?
According to Bill Gates the Climate Change is a non-issue 🤷
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/bill-gates-climate-crisis-pivot](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/bill-gates-climate-crisis-pivot)
Why tf are people hung up on private jets? Top 10% of earners would include a lot of people doing maybe 2-3 trips on Ryanair/AerLingus a year.
A lot of people in here whining about the photograph used and not whining about the fact that rich people are wasteful
Sorry lads I know I’m skewing the results. I forgot to hit the eco button on the dishwasher the other day
Tax. Fucking tax them.
Turf!!! The problem is my grandfather’s turf off his commonage!!! Not these data centers or personal jets. Keep your eyes focused looking downwards.
Eamon Ryan was on the radio recently and he said that on average, Irish people have halved their carbon output in the past 20 years.
Yet Ireland has still missed it’s targets.
So we have done so so so much but it’s not enough and the rich are just laughing at us.