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Surprise! Billionaires aren’t solving climate change
(heated.world)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
It's going to be hilarious when they either re enter Earth's orbit because they thought they could hide from everything in an orbiting space station .... or they just die alone in their underground bunker.
They may well be the last to survive but the destruction and chaos they cause will lead to a complete extinction of our species.
I can't remember the context of this factoid but I read somewhere that the ultra rich have been investing in yachts specifically for climate change. But because none of these assholes know how to actually use a boat, a bunch of bespoke industries have come out where yachts are loaded onto like a mega boat where they are ferried around the world.
a boat within a boat? we have to go deeper!