• @Fandangalo
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    The math here is the sort of thing that drives apathy for me to make small incremental changes. If the superrich can dump ~250 avg. emission years over the course of a year, why should I do anything besides lobby against this mode of transport or other large consumers? Maybe it’s a “spirit of the thing,” but changes in my life seem so negligible compared to how ruinous some individuals are acting.

    • @[email protected]
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      There are 801 billionaires in the US out of about 335,893,238 people. If everyone else were to reduce their carbon footprint by even a tenth of a percent then there would be significantly less carbon in the atmosphere than if every billionaire in the US were to reduce their carbon footprint to zero.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 hour ago

      What really irks me are people that think there’s such a thing as a “good” billionaire. Had an argument one time because I said all billionaires are inherently shitty, and my colleague was trying to convince me that Bill Gates is actually a good person.

      Get real son, the path to billionaire is paved with blood.

    • Flying Squid
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      What? No. I’m so glad billionaires are a thing. They’re doing all of that polluting on my behalf!

      I mean there’s only 24 hours in a day…

      • @NegativeInf
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        And they are collectively shortening our lifetimes too so we pollute less so they can keep their jetliners running during a lunch break in France!

  • @IsThisAnAI
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    This is such a dumb stat. Y’all just want to blame consumption on someone other than yourself.

    • @hark
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      The stat clearly shows billionaires are doing far more consumption. Seems more like you want to blame consumption on someone other than the worst offenders.

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      I’ll blame the consumption on me when it’s my mega yacht, private plane, fleet of cars and whatever the fuck else.

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      This is such a weird comment to make. Why is the stat dumb? There are many words to use to describe a stat, dumb doesn’t mean anything. You don’t even explain why.

      How does that help me blame consumption on others? You’re confusing “i want billionaires to stop polluting too” with “I can pollute because look at this dumb stat”. And we all know where you got the latter and why you think people are like that. Projections as usual.

      Why be a billionaire apologist? Whatever you want billionaires don’t help you achieve it, and are arguably worse for you in every way. It’s really weird to defend them, especially on this topic