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Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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It's weird to me that billionaires are not actively campaigning to solve climate change.
I, personally, could happily die aged 87, on a clean planet, surrounded by family, on a small expensive boat.
Rather than at 67, on a mega yacht, in a toxic wasteland, surrounded by the bodies of dead body-guards.
It doesn't seem like a really challenging choice, to me.
It's not rocket science to see where this trend line leads. We should all cooperate to fix this shit, now, using laws and science.
Eh, they don't care precisely because they believe they have the privilege to shield themselves, and their descendants from environmental catastrophe. Luxurious fallout bulkers are built right now to do just that: protect themselves and their children from iminent threats, be it mob riots or tsunami or nuclear fallout. They don't give a shit about the rest of us, and why would they? What do they have to gain from caring about us, it's just not in their interest to do that when they could afford to survive through this and we don't. They've already won the logic of the free market in a bloodthirsty, capital-centric world then surely they earned their superiority, and their place as the true, deserving heirs of the Earth reborn. Looking through their eyes, it's just natural selection.