If 2020 teaches us anything, it's that the next crisis is likely right around the corner, and could be prevented, or at least contained, if we act swiftly.
The rich or merely affluent, it turns out, are actually the ones blowing through the world's carbon budget — the maximum amount of cumulative emissions that can be added to the atmosphere to hit the Paris agreement's 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming goal.
Households emit 33 percent less carbon than any other state. The per capita footprint in San Francisco is nearly three times lower than the national average.
The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to safer environmental conditions.
