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We are the top 1%.
What’s unmentioned is that the top 1%, the top 2%, the top 5%, even the top 10% has a disproportionate impact on emissions. That group is made up mostly by the West, but also the rich elite in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, etc.
Not sure what you mean by “we”. You need roughly 800k$ to be part of the global 1% (and that was in 2018):
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-part-of-the-1-percent-worldwide.html
It says that the top 1% makes 140k USD…
The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year
Lemmy probably has a disproportionate number of tech bros who make that or more, but that’s wayyy out of reach at least for most Americans.
Ah apparently we are all middle class. But if your bank account has over 100k in it, you are suddenly an “elite group” polluter. There is no difference between the tech-bro living in a manhattan apartment and Hyundai Heavy Industries.
99% of people are not the top 1%.
With one weird trick we could slash carbon emissions by 1/3rd or more! All it would take is a few cuts. 👀
Time to over throw the rich.
Let’s seize their bank account
then you’re rich and we need to seize your account
Not once you distribute it evenly. Then there is only equality
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Reminds me of a really funny reddit comment of someone trying to solve inequality: Take the richest person in the world and murder them. They would do this until people will be so afraid of having money that they’ll just give it all away, thus eventually achieving equality.
Obviously it’s a dogshit idea that could only come from the finest brains of preddit, but it’s pretty funny to see a liberal take on communism.
Also that’s kinda what China does already and it hasn’t really worked to close the wealth gap.
Time to eat them
These articles are somewhat disingenuous. It isn’t their mansions, their jets, or their yachts. It’s because of the amount they have invested in fossil fuels and other industries. A better question is why do they have enough money to own so much.
What? That’s where it matters most! Those are the biggest polluters.
If it just talked about their minuscule lifestyles, it would be disingenuous
A system that feeds them and is designed to feed them will eventually overfeed. it’s called fattening up and we’ve only been practicing it with animals. Rich people practice it with us except they’re the piggies. In a conclusive argument they want to be fattened up to this point so why not treat them like the piggies they deserve.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
Bill Gates: That’s why we need to
killdepopulate 66% of the world’s poor.Not sure why you chose Bill Gates who is the only one of this club actively trying to help this segment of world society and ostensibly planning to give away his wealth. Bezos, Musk, Jobs, all far more deserving of this.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Because he’s the biggest player in the depopulation narrative. I thought him being responsible for forever covid to make a buck and his ties to Epstein would have been enough to ruin his reputation but I guess LTT was a warning that PR can whitewash even the biggest monster.
Nice troll
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Dumbass mfers still think LTT is wholesome chungus even with all the stuff coming out about him… No wonder sexpestube is so rampant.
Now I don’t feel as guilty
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says.
For the past six months, the Guardian has worked with Oxfam, the Stockholm Environment Institute and other experts on an exclusive basis to produce a special investigation, The Great Carbon Divide.
Over the period from 1990 to 2019, the accumulated emissions of the 1% were equivalent to wiping out last year’s harvests of EU corn, US wheat, Bangladeshi rice and Chinese soya beans.
“The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price,” said Chiara Liguori, Oxfam’s senior climate justice policy adviser.
The extravagant carbon footprint of the 0.1% – from superyachts, private jets and mansions to space flights and doomsday bunkers – is 77 times higher than the upper level needed for global warming to peak at 1.5C.
Oxfam International’s interim executive director, Amitabh Behar, said: “Not taxing wealth allows the richest to rob from us, ruin our planet and renege on democracy.
The original article contains 853 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
We should really get rid of them
in other news water is wet
Water is wet.
I think my feed is broken. I’m seeing a lot of articles like this written by a person named Captain something