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@MakBerberovic Seen from a global perspective, living in Sweden, with a somewhat well-paying job (I'm in the Swedish median, I believe), I'm pretty sure I belong to the 10%.

So given our impact on pollution (by consumtion/proxy, if nothing else), I'm rather sure I'm up there—even if I personally am rather more "environmental" than most Swedes, work in/for a left-leaning school, work politically on the left (in and out of parties). But I still consume products made in Abroadia (because everything is), I still benefit from the mining Swedish companies do in Abroadia, I still benefit from Swedish labour (which is mostly brown, non-Swedish and exists in this Abrodia I speak of), I still reap the benefits of "Swedish" produce created by killing off the seas around Africa, South America, etc.

I don't see that as a problem, really, regarding my statement. Just facing the facts on my part.

(We have to be (made?) aware of what we are a part of to be able to combat it. Example: A big thing here in Sweden some odd 20 years ago was water saving faucets and toilets. What good do they really do when we've just outsourced water scarcity to poor countries in the Global South? What good does it do if I personally save a couple of houndred litres of water by taking shorter showers when a (as in one) pair of blue jeans "costs" upwards to 35000 litres of water?

But now I'm rambling.)