to argue that cities, not nations, are the world’s primary economic units and that the prosperity of all nations depends on the health and wealth of their cities.
What these voters do know is that inequalities exist between nearly every place that is either a city or not a city. Their anger and their opposition are not so much directed at nature and the climate as it is at the liberal urban elites and intellectuals who contemptuously dismiss them as primitive — epitomized by Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark in 2016. As Ritchie reminds us, this contempt is not helpful, is dehumanizing and almost certainly makes matters worse.
Which brings us to the climate impact of wealthy, educated elites who live in these greater metropolitan regions. In a, university researchers from Massachusetts and Norway measured the climate impact of wealthy people by including the effects of financial investments in the fossil fuel industries.The highest-earning 0.