• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Billionaires generate obscene amounts of carbon pollution with their yachts and private jets – but this is dwarfed by the pollution caused by their investments,” said Oxfam International’s inequality policy adviser Alex Maitland.

    The problem isn’t the yachts or private jets, or who owns them.

    The problem identified in the article is that Exxon and BP sell a shitload of fossil fuels, and Bill Gates owns over a billion dollars of shares in fossil fuel companies like BP. The private jets are a red herring, regardless of who owns them.

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      11 months ago

      The problem isn’t the yachts or private jets, or who owns them.

      Wrong. Who owns the fossil fuel companies, investments, private jets and yachts?

      Billionaires should not exist.

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        11 months ago

        Which is a bigger problem, emissions-wise:

        1. The private jets of all 12 billionaires on that list

        Or

        1. China National Petroleum Corporation
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          11 months ago

          Is that what the article is about? Should we consider methane from cows? Solar cycles? Reel it back in homie.