With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom,
Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in
contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and
their investments. In an innovative contribution, it attempts to
quantify personal responsibility for shareholdings in large fossil
fuel companies. This book explores the implications of the richest
people's historic responsibility for global warming, the impacts of
which affect them less than most others in global society. Kenner
analyses how the richest people running large oil and gas companies
have successfully used their political influence to lobby the US
and UK government. This assessment of their growing political power
is particularly pertinent at a time of increasing inequality and
growing public awareness of the impact of climate change. The book
also highlights the crucial role of the richest in blocking the
low-carbon transition in the US and the UK, exploring how this
could be countered to ensure fossil fuels are fully replaced by
renewable energy. This book will be of great relevance to scholars
and policy makers with an interest in inequality, climate change
and sustainability transitions.
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