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Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. (www.oxfam.org)

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

This infuriates me.

I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it's prohibitively expensive to.

But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.

I think taxing the rich just isn't enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They can spend millions trying to reduce everyone’s carbon footprints. Like literally they can lobby for trains and shit. But no they won’t.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Some do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Name one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stephen King

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not a billionaire.
I've seen no indication he is carbon neutral or that he makes large green infrastructure investments.

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