Billions Quote by Tom Hodgkinson

“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up…

— Greta Thunberg

“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25 The poorest…

— Rutger Bregman

The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

— Tony Juniper

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions…

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care,…

— Bill Gates

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest…

— David Harvey

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

— Helen Caldicott

There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet

— George Watsky

“Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and…

— Barry Commoner

“As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world’s…

— Yuval Noah Harari