Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime.
Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime.
www.oxfam.org
Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime | Oxfam International
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4199810
This infuriates me.
I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it's prohibitively expensive to.
But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.
I think taxing the rich just isn't enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.
They can spend millions trying to reduce everyone’s carbon footprints. Like literally they can lobby for trains and shit. But no they won’t.
Some do
they want thier private jets, and megayahcts+ a fleet or escort yachts.
they could also make electric cars...
Its designed to infuriate you. This is not personal emissions of billionaires, its including their businesses.
brother, that doesn't make it any better. these pieces of shit can do more pollution in 90 minutes than any of us will in a life time since it's for their business? the one which is such a massive operation of exploitation and extraction that it earns them billions of illbegotten dollars, which is why they're being talked about to begin with?
"this infuriating shit was designed to infuriate you, don't be infuriated, just accept it instead!"
this is the same stupid shit argument as "um bezos can't pay more taxes bc he doesn't actually have all the money his networth implies, that's not how networth works" as if people mad at jeff bezos or any of these other worthless rich parasites don't know that, as if we need someone like you to explain some stupid shit to us
The Oxfam report says that private planes and "superyachts" are contributing factors, as well as investments in polluting industries like oil and mining.
Nowhere does it mention that their businesses are what's contributing to their carbon footprint. They are explicitly talking about their lifestyle choices.
So, I'm not sure where you got that info from, but if they are including businesses that these billionaires run, I'd be interested in seeing that data.
Mind you, the majority of these billionaires are in software... a business that's very easy to convert over to a carbon-neutral model, especially with their resources.
A billionaire is a business themselves. One person can't even passively possess a billion dollars without tons of support staff
If you separate the direct actions of the person from the actions of the staff required to maintain and grow their wealth, you're missing most of the reason why billionaires are so harmful to society
yeah we do need to bust a cap in the rich, i agree
Carefully Autopsy their Person?
Sounds good.
Cap them in their knees.
Some would argue that we could simply cap the rich instead