The top 10% of people create something like 50% of the carbon footprint which means 90% of people create the rest of it.
No one’s blameless.
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Ooops@feddit.org 16 hours agoYeah, that’s a nice fairy tales to keep burning the planet.
In reality the main consumers are a handful of rich people including those owning the corporations and paying off politicians and media while 95% of the people would not consume anything if not forced to do it and are also contributing only a miniscule amount to the total consumption.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 16 hours ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
But that also means that if the top 10% cut their consumption by half, we would have blown past the required targets to not have global warming pass 1.5° C, even if the other 90% didn’t change a thing. And they would have still been engaging in massive consumption by anyone else’s standards.
bryndos@fedia.io 16 hours ago
I also they've that a large amount of the bottom 90% are paying the top 10% to do it.
Also the difference between create and consume is important. even if shell only had 1 employee and 1 shareholder, that person would have many customers paying. you can measure both of course.
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Not true. Our cars account for more than 15% of the problem. Our meat is about the same. With just those two things, we are over the 25% of the “factor 4” from Rio. It is oversimplified, but it gives the idea: if the Ultra richs stop polluting, we are still doomed if the rest of us doesn’t do something either.
Ooops@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Sure… people spend hours in congested traffic because they love their cars so much, not because they lack alternatives. And it’s totally normal that I can pay less for 500g of cheap meat than for a 500g bag of rice, and not caused by insane subsidies for meat producers.
The issues are systemic and guess what… the majority is not in power to change the system.