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take their money and arrest those responsible (thelemmy.club)

submitted 12 hours ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, that's a nice fairy tales to keep burning the planet.

In reality the main consumers are a handful of rich people including those owning the corporations and paying off politicians and media while 95% of the people would not consume anything if not forced to do it and are also contributing only a miniscule amount to the total consumption.

[-] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Not true. Our cars account for more than 15% of the problem. Our meat is about the same. With just those two things, we are over the 25% of the "factor 4" from Rio. It is oversimplified, but it gives the idea: if the Ultra richs stop polluting, we are still doomed if the rest of us doesn't do something either.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 0 points 11 hours ago

The top 10% of people create something like 50% of the carbon footprint which means 90% of people create the rest of it.

No one's blameless.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

But that also means that if the top 10% cut their consumption by half, we would have blown past the required targets to not have global warming pass 1.5° C, even if the other 90% didn't change a thing. And they would have still been engaging in massive consumption by anyone else's standards.

[-] bryndos@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

I also they've that a large amount of the bottom 90% are paying the top 10% to do it.

Also the difference between create and consume is important. even if shell only had 1 employee and 1 shareholder, that person would have many customers paying. you can measure both of course.