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[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

And the worst part is, average citizens like yourself aren't a massive burden on the environment. It's people like Elon Musk flying personal jets across the world for dinner, who are actively contributing to the death of the planet.

[-] golamas1999@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The jets are bad but what is worse are the handle full of billionaires and csuite execs who have the money and power to decide company policies and bribe politicians and governments: lobbying, independent expenditures, gala dinners, super pacs, incentives, revolving doors, private fundraising, paid speeches; to look the other way so they can pollute however much they want.

Nothing is Ethical under Capitalism.

Social Democracy is better but still exports the suffering to the global south.

Workers of the world must unite to over come the absolute insanity of the capital class.

[-] ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And how are we supposed to do that? ~Strawberry

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, everyone participates and it adds up. If you want to compare such personal consumption like jets, then the rich account for about 15% of the global emissions.

Here's a chart:

from this report: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-inequality-in-2030-per-capita-consumption-emissions-and-the-15c-goal-621305/

The share of total global emissions associated with the consumption of the richest 1% is set to continue to grow, from 13% in 1990, to 15% in 2015 and 16% in 2030.

If you want to include the rich's capital, which you should, because that has to change:

the bottom 50% of the world population emitted 12% of global emissions in 2019, whereas the top 10% emitted 48% of the total. Since 1990, the bottom 50% of the world population has been responsible for only 16% of all emissions growth, whereas the top 1% has been responsible for 23% of the total. While per-capita emissions of the global top 1% increased since 1990, emissions from low- and middle-income groups within rich countries declined. Contrary to the situation in 1990, 63% of the global inequality in individual emissions is now due to a gap between low and high emitters within countries rather than between countries. Finally, the bulk of total emissions from the global top 1% of the world population comes from their investments rather than from their consumption. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z

But if you imagine that the petite bourgeois lifestyle of McMansion in suburbia, cars and driving around everywhere, eating boatloads of primary calories, and the rest of the consumption isn't contributing, you should read more. Here's a start: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3691-the-imperial-mode-of-living

[-] aport@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago

Sorry but this is not true at all. Your regular average citizen demands products whose production, transportation, and disposal is responsible for massive amounts of emissions.

If you buy cheap Chinese shit off Amazon, or Big Macs, a new phone every year, you're part of the problem.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
  1. Be big business
  2. Spend decades chasing profits using any means necessary.
  3. Make so much money that the average person can barely get by.
  4. Sell them the cheapest shit possible that they have no choice but to buy cause they're poor as fuck.
  5. Have morons on the internet blame the average person instead of greedy corporations/billionaires/government.
  6. ????
  7. Profit!
[-] rikudou 3 points 1 year ago

Feel free to skip step 6, there are no question marks. Every time someone blames consumers for the state of our planet, an oil magnate smiles while overlooking his fleet of luxury cars made out of silver.

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