Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime.
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.
yeah we do need to bust a cap in the rich, i agree
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
This is not personal emissions of billionaires, its including their businesses.
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
Carefully Autopsy their Person?
Sounds good.
Cap them in their knees.
Some would argue that we could simply cap the rich instead
Please don’t use this as an excuse for. “It doesn’t matter how much I emit then”.
Use this as motivation for grassroots and political action aiming to stop the concept of billionaire from existing.
Fuck yeah! You get it.
I'm glad you addressed this. As soon as I read the title of the post, I knew there would be people who use it as an excuse not to try to do what they can to reduce their negative affects. Which is so incredibly frustrating. Every! Little! Bit! Counts!
Also I doubt anyone in this comment section is average.
The average sits somewhere between us and the all the people in third world country who emit practically no carbon pollution
The only way to stop it is when we're hungry enough, and it's time to eat.
Why should I restrict my limited lifetime on contributing pennies to solving this issue when there are mountains of gold right there doing nothing? I'm not bending over backwards unless the big ones bend with me — pretty fair stance to take, right?
Whether or not you eat the rich, please consider not eating the cows.
There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
There are no innocent millionaires. The threshold of wealth that requires some seriously unethical behaviour is pretty low.
What do you count as innocent? Like doesn't use products made in factories with human rights violations? I'm never gonna hit a million, but economists are saying we all need to have a Mil or three in order to retire? I know a couple million airs who seem like normal people, they're just business owners?
You need to be a millionaire to comfortably retire so...
nah million USD isn't as much money as it used to be. That's a house and couple of cars in more expensive countries. Though, personally 1 million USD net worth would be more than enough for me and my family.
Damn, thank god we killed plastic straws for people with sensitive mouth problems. Thank god Musk can ride his jet 24/7.
For perspective, that's over 400,000x as much. As in 40,000,000%.
When no one was looking, Lex Luthor polluted forty million percent more than an average person. He polluted 40,000,000% more. That's as many as four tens (times a million)%. And that's terrible.
wow they must be breathing really hard then
Of course... Work hard, breath hard... A million times harder than you or me, based on income.. /s
It's the farts actually, they're really stinky.
At some point, things are gonna get bad enough that the masses will turn on them. That’s why they’re all buying islands and building bunkers. We should do it now, while it can make a difference.
Allowing to self exile to islands will make it easier to trap them. Simply destroy their means of leaving.
Bunkers are even easier, burying them in trash.
But I'm the asshole for not using the public transportation my city doesn't have. Anyway, I need to get to the grocery store I should start walking now so I can be there before it closes in 2 hours.
Don't worry, I got this. I went to the shop by foot today instead of driving.