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Disclaimer: This is a joke. Ecofascism is obviously bad, kids. Don't be that guy.
Don't do this, but remember: the richer a person is, the bigger the ecological footprint. You are higher on that list than you might realize. Especially ecofascists tend to forget that fact.
Yeah you know what would actually be better? Fixing legislation so that the 100 companies that create the majority of pollution stop doing that
Even better than that is changing the system so the 100 companies are no longer around to create a majority of pollution.
The statistic that "Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions" is better understood as "Just 100 companies responsible for selling 71% of global fossil fuels". It's fundamentally saying that there's a few large coal, oil and gas companies worldwide selling us most of the supply.
If you want those companies to stop polluting, that amounts to those companies not selling fossil fuels.
Which is honestly the goal, but the only way to do that is to replace the demand for fossil fuels. Cutting the US off from fossil fuels would kill a ton of people if you didn't first make an energy grid 100% powered by renewables, got people to buy electric cars, cold climate heat pumps, etc.
That's true! But I think more than one "front" can be open in this battle. And we also need the ones that can be won quicker or easier. Or at least start those too.
Yeah - everyone is shitting on the top 1% here in Germany until they realize that half the population here makes it into that percentile and suddenly it's the 0,1% that's the problem.
It's all about putting the blame on someone else so you don't have to question if you might be a little bit responsible, too, with your lifestyle...
Especially ecofascists
Do you think so-called “ecofascists” are unaware of their contributions to climate change? Or do you just assume that based on their behavior?
You are right. Never trust a fascist's propaganda. There always is a gap between their announced beliefs and their real ones.
Also much less important than the top by multiple orders of magnitude.
I feel like this argument is way too imprecise, to the point of being basically untrue. That's probably based on the average emissions or something like that, but people are not the same and "emission responsibility" is wildly different.
Imagine killing 34k exploited African people, the world's climate won't even notice that. On the other hand, killing 34k middle class Americans or Europeans would probably be a little more effective, but still won't fix anything. Now, killing 34k high-profile megacorp executives would definitely be much more effective, but would also collapse some economies, leading to various climate unfriendly events (like riots, war and shit).
But the simplest empirical evidence is: COVID killed 6 million people and the climate is still shit.
Source: I made it the fuck up, I'm talking out of my ass
The 34k wealthiest ppl in the world emit more than 3,200,000,000 average people.
Bullshit.
The investments of just 125 billionaires emit 393 million tonnes of CO2e each year – the equivalent of France – at an individual annual average that is a million times higher than someone in the bottom 90 percent of humanity.
That is to say, if you multiply the emissions of the gasoline sold by ExxonMobil by whatever percentage of ExxonMobile that's in Bill Gate's portfolio, you get an absolutely ridiculous emissions number.
But that seems to assume that if it weren't for those dastardly billionaires investing in oil companies, we'd all be living in 10-minute cities with incredible subways connected by high speed rail, powered entirely by renewables, and heated by geothermal heat pumps. And I honestly don't beleive that.
well well well
Ayy, you had me at "killing 34k high-profile megacorp executives". 🤌🏼 Got a newsletter?
Planting 20 million trees wouldn't have much of an effect on the climate. Definitely not for the next 10 years.
Hemp/ Cannibis/ Marijuana are the best crops for carbon capture. Not only do they store 80%+ of the carbon in their roots, one acre of hemp will capture 10 times the amount of carbon as one acre of trees, provided the hemp is harvested at least once a year, and the roots are stored at the bottom of the ocean or something. You can harvest that acre up to 4 times a year in some parts of the world, and hemp can be used for food, fuel, clothing, rope, paper, shelter, concrete, and a ton of other stuff.
There's no need to kill anyone. As our climate collapses, that'll start to happen on its own
Yeah but the people that will be dying won’t be the ones with the biggest carbon footprints. It’ll be climate migrants from underdeveloped areas or island nations.
That’s the saddest part.
Or....
We could kill the people who are not only directly responsible for, but who are actively refusing to stop the climate collapse because they want to keep making money and lording over us all from their super yachts (after giving them the opportunity to surrender their wealth for redistribution and stop their exploitation of course, which they will refuse), and actually have a realistic chance of stopping it.
Israel's new propaganda wave: "We're just environmentalists."
Trees are actually oxygen neutral for most of their lives, their main purpose is in sequestering carbon.
Contraception is the morally ok way.
To take it seriously:
No it wouldn't; time exists.Are we concerned about the amount of oxygen available now?
Photosynthesis by ocean-dwelling cyanobacteria produces around 1/3rd of oxygen IIRC. CO2 causes ocean acidification which reduces their ability to grow, thus limiting O2 production. When it is hotter, plants ability to store carbon and photosynthesise goes down. So not right now, but O2 will be cause for concern in the future if we don't turn away from fossil fuels.
Thanks, I'd never really considered the impacts climate change would have on oxygen. I looked into this a bit and it seems to also be the case that rising ocean temperatures also reduce the capacity of the water to hold dissolved oxygen, which causes a nasty feedback loop.
So while there's not an immediate risk of atmospheric oxygen concentration dropping by any significant amount, there is a real concern of oxygen concentrations in the oceans dropping pretty drastically. This then accelerates climate change even further and could have longer term effects on atmospheric levels as well.
Canadian Liberals be like "So we could just kill 3 million Canadians instead of planting 2 billion trees like we promised 🤔"
Why are there so many sig figs in the amount of people killed vs. the trees planted?
The humans number was probably converted from metric.
Climate Refugee is confused!
It saved oxygen in it's confusion.
Shall we fix our extreme pollution pattern to be ecologically sustainable and embrace renewable energy?
Wait what about just throwing humans into a meat grinder!
Por que no los dos?
