By Shreya Dasgupta A recent study reveals that the majority of people, regardless of how much they earn, greatly underestimate the personal carbon footprint of the richest members of their society, while overestimating that of the poorest. This suggests that “most people, including the wealthiest, are largely unaware of the profound inequality in personal carbon footprints within their country,” study co-author Kristian Nielsen, a climate change researcher at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, told Mongabay in an email. “This is likely because many people have a limited understanding of carb…