"Are the rich killing the climate?" was the main theme of a ZDF program. Millionaire Julien Backhaus caused a great deal of incomprehension among many in the ZDF talk.
Data from the Climate Inequality Report showed that the richest ten percent of the world's population accounted for 48 percent of global emissions. The fact that wealthy people live umpteen times as harmful to the climate as ordinary citizens was also the conclusion of a "taz" data analysis."The rich will not be able to solve the climate problem on their own," climate expert Dr. Felix Creutz said.