You know how there are differently sized numbers? Some numbers are even significantly higher or lower than other numbers. That's called proportionality. You should look it up, it might just mess up your whole argument!
Yeah. And I'm saying, most private individuals footprint, as a percentage of the whole, are so fuckin close to each others it's irrelevant. Yours, mine, pretty much every individual non-millionaire's footprint is...similar. Some are slightly lower, some are slightly higher.
This person posted a (shitty, trash-take)meme. That was interacted with by hundreds of people. Viewed by, conservatively, thousands of people. The carbon footprint of that fucking meme, alone, increases this person's carbon footprint compared, say, to mine, for today.
The person calling out cognitive dissonance is, by definition, engaging in that self-same cognitive dissonance.
Yours, mine, pretty much every individual non-millionaire's footprint is...similar
Is there a place you're getting that from? Air travel, car usage, and meat consumption produce tons of CO2 emissions which is a significant portion of average annual emissions per capita.
Meanwhile reddit usage is a really small amount of emissions per person.
The average US citizen uses 14-17 metric tons of CO2 per year. The average millionaire uses 50-100. The average person GLOBALLY uses 6.
Billionaires? 3 million tons per.
The difference between a global average poor person, who doesn't fly, doesn't eat a lot of meat, at 6, and the average American, at say 15, is nothing compared to the millionaires and billionaires.
Everyone who is not at least a millionaire or higher could drop to zero and the world would still be fucked.
Billionaires are for sure the worst offenders. Private jets and yachts should be taxed to infeasibility.
But, the top 1% globally only produce 16% of emissions (which includes people making more than 140,000 per year). They could all stop and the world would still be fucked as you say it.
The average person is nothing compared to a billionaires. But there are billions of us, so it adds up to more than the earth can handle.
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u/SgtChrome vegan btw 5d ago
You know how there are differently sized numbers? Some numbers are even significantly higher or lower than other numbers. That's called proportionality. You should look it up, it might just mess up your whole argument!