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> You won't get people to agree to make their life worse for the sake of the environment, no matter how much activists keep trying to push that You left out a
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
> You won't get people to agree to make their life worse for the sake of the environment, no matter how much activists keep trying to push that
You left out a word: wealthy people.
The lower 50% of the world's people income-wise are responsible for 15% of global CO2 emissions, and the top 10% for 34% of total emissions.
It won't matter how many people are riding around on e-bikes instead of cars if we have rich assholes flying half-way around the world 3-4x a year for vacation.
- snthd 4y agoExactly. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-cause-global-aviation-emissions-study-covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-caus... >Frequent-flying “‘super emitters” who represent just 1% of the world’s population caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions in 2018, according to a study. >Airlines produced a billion tonnes of CO2 and benefited from a $100bn (£75bn) subsidy by not paying for the climate damage they caused, the researchers estimated.