The Climate Crisis

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The impacts and solutions of the Climate Crisis

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The richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity. Eliminating capitalism and billionaires it produces is the only way to start meaningfully addressing the crisis. (www.oxfam.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

while the billionaire class is still a massive problem, an even larger problem ecologically is that tens of millions of moderately wealthy people from wealthy nations have massively outsized carbon footprints.

It is definitely false that that's a larger problem. The top corporations emit way more carbon than all the petite-bourgeois SUV drivers and so on. I think the number people constantly trot out is that the top 100 companies (a fraction of a fraction of a percent here) do 70% of the emitting.