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blady_blah@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
The thing is billionaires will always use more resources than you. They will have more stuff. Itâll have more houses. They will have boats, private planes, huge mansions, and more money than they know what to do with. They will always use more resources than you. If your whole statement is we shouldnât try to solve global warming because some people are rich, and weâre doomed to all die. And by the way, The billionaires will have a nice air-conditioned bunker while the rest of us die.
Iâm all for trying to solve wealth inequality, but it shouldnât get in the way of solving a major environmental disaster.
Well, I canât help but notice itâs mostly those billionaires and the people who work for them who are telling us thereâs a climate issue and WE need to solve it while they continue to fly everywhere on their private jets and buy more waterfront mansions they tell us will be underwater in 10 years.
So IDK man⌠Iâm certainly not a climate scientist but something doesnât add up here.
More people than billionaires are telling you thereâs a climate issue. Scientists are, normal people are, etc. Itâs the biggest environmental issue of our lifetimes. And there are some celebrities that are also trying to use their popularity to promote the message to get the government to create a set of rules that will actually impact out much CO2 weâre putting into our atmosphere. The right-wing talking heads have found that itâs really effective to point at them and say âLOOK! They have big houses! They fly around in private jets! They use more resources that 100 of you normal folks, therefore we shouldnât do anything.â
The reality is that theyâre using more resources than 100 of us normal folks, but there are 100k of us normal folks to each of them so we make a much more significant impact on the climate than they do. And yes, lets make the laws affect them also. But the âtheyâre flying around in jetsâ talking point is lame. Theyâre going to be flying around in jets no matter what. Theyâre going to have big houses no matter what. So lets make them have lots of solar panels on their big houses or make flying around in private jets more expensive. Thatâs just a reason to make the laws affect them also, itâs NOT a reason to do nothing and let the world burn.
qevlarr@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât think thatâs what theyâre saying at all. Any solution to climate change is incomplete if it doesnât also address inequality and overconsumption
byroon@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Not just incomplete. You probably need to start with inequality. 25% of global emissions are created by the richest 1%. 50% by the richest 10%