If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, it is likely mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century. That is the key finding of a new study led by Western University's Joshua Pearce. The oil and gas industry, which includes many of the most profitable and powerful businesses in the world, is directly and indirectly responsible for more than 40 per cent of carbon emissions - impacting the lives of billions of people, many living in the world's most remote and low-resourced communities.

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