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It's difficult to believe the working class in America should bear the sacrifice when the richest people in the world just flew their private jets to a lavish c
by leereeves 5y ago
It's difficult to believe the working class in America should bear the sacrifice when the richest people in the world just flew their private jets to a lavish climate conference thousands of miles from home to discuss how much the working class should sacrifice.
Any sacrifice that is called for should start at the top.
- UncleMeat 5y agoCool. I think you'll find that a large number of climate activists are very on board with pretty extreme policies pulling from the rich. The people calling it "superstition" tend to be people who don't support high taxes on the wealthy.
- leereeves 5y agoThat may be true at the grassroots level, but I've never seen it materialize at the policy level. Perhaps I've missed something. Could you cite an example of an actual (not merely theoretical) climate policy that pulls from the rich without hurting the working class?
- UncleMeat 5y agoI mean, there is barely any climate policy at all in the first place.
- adrianN 5y agoThe working class in America is part of the richest people in the world.
- MisterMower 5y agoHow many of them have a private jet? Your working class American might make 5 times as much as a person living in the third world, but the clowns at this climate conference are easily 1,000 times as rich. Your comparison is meaningless.
- adrianN 5y agoThe actions of a few thousand extremely rich people have little influence on global emissions. The actions of 300 million Americans do.
- leereeves 5y agoAnyone could use that excuse: "I'm just one person, it doesn't matter what I do." It's even less credible when the one person is putting 10x as much carbon in the atmosphere as the average person. And until the rich start making personal sacrifices, they lack any moral authority to demand sacrifices from others.