Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal
www.theguardian.com
Laurence Tubiana, one of experts behind 2015 agreement, calls for taxes or charges on consumption
  • solo@slrpnk.net
    20·
    5 months ago

    The richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the 66% at the other end of the scale, yet they experience little of the vulnerability to climate shocks that are causing suffering and death, mainly among poorer people.

    I couldn’t agree more. Which countries will implement those taxes tho?

    While most of the discussion at Cop29, and in Bonn, will focus on how to raise the money needed, but questions over how it should be spent also need to be resolved.

    So to my understanding, once more the talk has to be focused on sustaining the money flow, not sustaining the environment.

    • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de
      91·
      5 months ago

      So to my understanding, once more the talk has to be focused on sustaining the money flow, not sustaining the environment.

      Yes and this is unsurprising. Before, but definitely since COVID, we know there is a substantial portion of humanity, that just can’t be convinced or motivated to engage in collective preventative action, especially if it means sacrificing now for a delayed, uncertain reward to the community and no guaranteed personal gain.

      That means, the best we can do is “symptomatic treatment”, which costs money and won’t solve the root cause.

      That’s one aspect of humans, where it becomes evident we are actually still animals and are not really ready to be a supra-planetary species.

      • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
        66·
        5 months ago

        we know there is a substantial portion of humanity, that just can’t be convinced or motivated to engage in collective preventative action

        That’s one aspect of humans

        I can’t disagree more. Especially during COVID, you could see that most of the people unwilling to wear a mask belonged to a certain political group, and watched certain media that told them to act in such a way. I could bring you the opposite example with China, where the regulations worked extremely well and people didn’t do this bullshit. It’s not a human trait, it’s just a certain ideology promoting selfishness.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    INB4 a bunch of first-world middle-class people in this thread conveniently think the “global rich” includes only people slightly richer than them.