2025/11/06

Sam Lavigne’s Income-based Carbon Footprint Calculator Highlights Rampant Inequality

Building on his activist work exploring “unconventional CO2 offsets” with collaborator Tega Brain, American artist Sam Lavigne introduces the world’s first (?) income-based carbon footprint calculator. The tool is based on new insights on emissions inequality that show that “40% of total U.S. emissions were associated with income flows to the highest earning 10% of households.” As Lavigne states: “Some people are, in fact, more responsible than others.”

Metadata: People: , / Contributors: / Image: Jared Starr et al., “Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance,” PLOS Climate, 2023, Income VS Emissions (Log Scale)
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