• Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    It feels disingenuous at best to lump in people making $60k/year with Jeff Bezos and other billionaires. Just twelve billionaires account for 2,100,000 homes worth of emissions, and that’s only the raw output of their travel and other direct expenses: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/twelve-billionaires-climate-emissions-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-elon-musk-carbon-divide

    Yes, we can all do our bit to help out, but workers pointing fingers at other workers will only ever benefit the ruling class.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, we can all do our bit to help out, but workers pointing fingers at other workers will only ever benefit the ruling class.

      Don’t forget that you have more than one finger. You have fingers to spare to point blame at those who deserve it, and few of us in first world countries don’t.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, 1% of 8.1 billion is 81 million. So, it’s roughly the top 10% of population of the wealthiest countries.

      That includes both Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, but also middle managers in marketing, astronomers, HR managers, air traffic controllers, etc.