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America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.

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[–] bigwag1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Balance it out with some planet-cooling pollution

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[–] Infinity187@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the thumbnail is a picture of a nuclear plant......

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[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

what percentage of all jobs/economic growth is that 10% responsible for (including downstream supply chains)?

[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And I'll wager my left eye there'll still be western capitalist-sympathizers(because they themselves are not capitalists, as they own no capital nor any means of production, mass or otherwise) having themselves a jolly old wankfest about how we shouldn't be having a good long think about the Robespierre method

[–] superphly@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait, how is that possible when China is responsible for 50% of the carbon emissions? This doesn’t add up.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Every time I see such evaluations I get this picture of an economically illiterate person just making assumptions from some statistics they are unable to comprehend. A bit like with electrical engineering.

And in any case the useful metric would be pollution per dollar (or per joule) spent by a person, not totals. I don't think I have to explain why, it's obvious.

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[–] ebenixo@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a conservative nummber

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