The rich, not the poor, are burning the planet

Taipei Times - archives: "A paper published on Monday in the journal Environment and Urbanization shows that the places where population has been growing fastest are those in which carbon dioxide has been growing most slowly, and vice versa. Between 1980 and 2005, for instance, sub-Saharan Africa produced 18.5 percent of the world’s population growth and just 2.4 percent of the growth in carbon dioxide. North America turned out only 4 percent of the extra people, but 14 percent of the extra emissions. Sixty-three percent of the world’s population growth happened in places with very low emissions."

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