The paper is here

Thanks to @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social for highlighting this bit:

Then there were “super-emitters” with extremely high overall greenhouse gas emissions, corresponding to about the top 0.1 percent of households. About 15 days of emissions from a super-emitter was equal to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10 percent in America.

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      10 months ago

      In freedom units, that would be approximately 14 elephants stood diagonally on their left tusk worth of humans.

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      US population is about 340 million, so 34 million in the top 10% and 340,000 in the 0.1% super-emitters