America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam | Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam
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Tm12@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 298d
Tax the fuck out of private jets.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 298d
Or we could just kill the billionaires. I’ll probably get banned for that comment, because that’s much as we care about climate change we care about random billionaires lives a lot more… Apparently… Silence7
artifex@piefed.social · 3 pts · 297d
Unless this came along with a massive overhaul of the tax system I don’t see how it would fix anything. Say you kill billionaire #1. Now he’s dead, but his 5 kids are billionaires. His money doesn’t magically get recirculated, most of it isn’t even real so it doesn’t get taxed.
You’d need a wealth cap and it’d probably need to be almost global in scale to prevent these dipshits from running away (at least until they learned to realize that there’s essentially no lifestyle difference between $50M and $50B.
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 298d
Im not arguing about your effictivity.
but that solution would put you on the same level as they are. not caring about individuals.
But honestly. Im always buffeld about the world we live in with so many psychopaths that none has the idea to kill rich mthrfckrs instead of politicians.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 298d
The rich controlled the politicians. What kind of dumb ass doesn’t know that. You sound like a fed. All feds need to die
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 298d
The timing of Bill Gates recent bullshit seems sus. Very sus.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 298d
bill gates and SAM altman. they know thier investments into data centers is polluting asf, they are just trying to save face.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 298d
We could always Kirk Billy. At this point, he’s useless. If he hasn’t learned to keep his mouth shut by now…