There is no defending this but let’s not pretend they are some homogeneous group!
Idk, billionaires are homogeneous where it counts, & for the majority of them, the way they got it or the way they use that wealth & power speaks to parasitic & sociopathic tendencies, SO I’m super frikkin ok treating them as a homogeneous group
Let me give you one example: Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia. He gave the company away to a non-profit 2022 making him no longer a billionaire. Patagonia gives 1% of its total sales to environmental groups and he started the company himself by selling hand-forged mountain climbing gear. Just because people don’t make the negative headlines doesn’t mean generalizing is a good idea, even if such high positions are more likely to have people with sociopathic tendencies as ruthlessness in business is often rewarded.
so does Taylor Swift
They do care about supporting genocide though
I wonder… Who ever pretended that though?
…the super rich themselves?
“Let’s not pretend the super-rich care…” is not the same as “the super-rich should stop pretending they care”. Words have meaning but so does grammar
When where? Haven’t heard that message for a while. Do you mean Elon just because he sells EVs? Jeff Bezos because he groups your purchases in one box?
What are you seeking in good faith here? Because it seems like you’re asking… the internet? to explain the concept of greenwashing to you?
I’m confused.
Keep your hands where I can see em when you answer, because this seems suspiciously like you’re JAQing off.
I bet every one of his corporate employees has to commute to work though. Hypocrites.
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My take is that the super wealthy already know there’s no saving this mess, and they won’t survive much longer either, so they’re just squeezing the lemon for whatever juice is left before it all blows sky high.
This has been their mentality since late 70s
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It has always been their mentality.
Jesus, if I remember correctly, usually travelled by donkey or by foot
If Jesus had access to it, he’d totally be a fixed gear bicycle cat zooming through the alleyways of Jerusalem.
Reminded me of that music video: https://youtu.be/VQSbIzfcURs
But would he take it off sweet jumps?
BMX Jesus FTW
Starbucks just can’t stop shooting itself in the foot. Just when it had given some concessions to the union. Fuck Starbucks.
how much carbon dioxide does this supercommute produce, expressed in cars/day?
edit: i guess it’s just cars
I want to know in paper straws per day.
How many bananas for miles travelled.
It’s actually difficult to estimate, but there are ways to calculate it. I gave up because I found one part of data expressed in CO2e per mile, another in CO2e per hour, and yet others with CO2 instead of CO2e. If I get into calculating that, I’m going to require funding.
The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.
There are 3,311 billionaires.
Once they are eliminated, that’s the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.
Is anyone tracking the location of his jet?
“Work”
Remember when all those politicians, actors, and activists went to that global climate change meeting on private planes?
Rich ppl will do nothing if it even inconveniences them a smidgen.
People like to point at rich people on planes but really it’s actually the car dependency and carnism that are destroying the planet.
Interesting article. Newer numbers (2023) are 37.200 Mt CO2 yearly human civilisation output. “Private” cars count around 10% of that (which to my knowledge includes vans driven by tradesmen and “independent” delivery drivers among other uses, vastly distorting the impact of individual car ownership), aviation between 2 and 20% depending on which “emissions factor” the counting organization attaches to it. The IEA numbers vary between 2-4%.
rich people decide whether we can make the changes necessary
Most people won’t. But rich people especially won’t.
Yeah… most people want to be like those rich people.
unlike rich people, most people can be incentivized or compelled to behave
I would say I would boycott Starbucks, but that would imply they have a product I desire.
You could go into a Starbucks while it’s busy, and when it’s your turn to order go. “I want a … thing. One of those … cylindrical” Basically, try to waste as much of the workers time as possible, without actually ordering anything. An important thing is that there’s people waiting behind you, so that you waste their time as well.
Or just order water? It’s free for you, but costs the company money, while not making it difficult for the employees. Doing what you suggested is all around shitty for the workers who are just trying to get through their day and earn a wage, as well as the people in line wanting a drink. The company will not be affected in any way with your suggestion.
I’ve been boycotting the company for years now, even the items you can get in grocery stores (since at least some of them are made by Nestle, so double boycott points). Anytime anyone suggests we grab starbucks, I offer an alternative and we end up trying a local coffee shop or other non-terrible franchise.
I thought the employees get paid by the hour?
Yes, but dealing with frustrations is frustrating.
I’ve never been in a Starbucks.The thought of drinking coffee that isn’t does not appeal to me.
In Ministry for the Future, one of the major plot points partway through the book is that eco-terrorists (eco-partisans, really, considering the subject matter and general gist of the book) start blasting planes out of the sky. They hit a few civilian airliners, but the vast majority of their targets are private jets.
Do with that what you will.
