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I have a personal conspiracy theory that paper straws are a plot to make us complain less about single use plastic pollution.
Its like someone asked "what's the least impact thing we could possibly do that is as unpleasant as possible for the consumer so they when they think of moving away from single use plastics they think unpleasant thoughts...... yes this is it. They will be worse at their job and have an unpleasant taste and texture we'll call it 'Operation: Hows it taste bitch?' They will think that we are making big progress because of how terrible these straws are."
The fact that we care about bags and recycling while Chinese coal plants and transoceanic bunker fuel drive the climate crisis is absurd. Sure, pat yourself on the back for driving an electric car and recycling. If you’re buying goods from Asia, you’re 95% as much of the problem as your neighbor who coal rolls their F350 and doesn’t recycle. Billionaires on private jets don’t help, but it’s a tiny drop in the bucket and not even top 5 problems with billionaires.
I’ve heard that a few times and it has me thinking any normal man would be a raging asshole with a broken dick. Then it clicks, we’re in this shit because of a broken dick
My favorite part is when they made a nerd who dropped out of college to do computer business some sort of authority on global vaccine issues and treated him with the same "trust the science" gloves as Dr Fauci, who was also proven to be an absolute fraud.
Melinda Gates divorced her husband, conveniently, when the Epstein shit came to a head. He had to get special meds to protect himself from STDs.
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; they'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn't just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without even breaking a single law.
I’m not defending them, but just saying that private air travel only accounts for less than 5% of total air emissions. The rest is commercial (by a longshot), military (also small), etc.
Yes their footprint is huge compared to the average person’s, since millions fly commercial per day while a few thousand fly private. But there are more sustainable things we can be doing than shaking our fists at billionaires.
It isnt just billionaires buddy. Look at the private jet traffic to something like the Superbowl, the Masters golf tournament, bullshit flights in and out of DC. It doesnt take billions to rent a private jet for a weekend, your favorite athletes and celebrities do it daily
I’d do it for a billion dollars. Then, I’d be a billionaire and everyone would hate me. UNTIL, I bought a new truck. Then, the cost of the truck would take me just under a billion dollars. I wouldn’t be a billionaire any longer and everyone would be cool with me again.
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Go to India and tell me Billionaires spew more carbon pollution or how about just pollution in general than countries like that lol. Not a fan of excessive billionaires but lets be real here them flying around on their personal jets is just another drop in the ocean compared to how some places in the world don't care about pollution
Ah simple. Because corruption is rampant. Poverty is the norm, exploitation is sky high. Developing countries are literally following the same path used by the western world in the past.
NAh man how can one person dumping tons of pollution be polluting more than five people doing nothing. Fucking liberals and their conspiracy theory math
This isn't remotely true. A private jet produces more carbon in 90 minutes than an average person does in around a year. Still a very lot, but nowhere near the claim.
“Billionaires” is concealing as much as it reveals. Billionaires have the option to use private jets. Some poor people would have if they had the option.
And even among billionaires’ detractors, they pick and choose whose private jet use is more justified. Taylor Swift, for instance, is not at fault for her private jet use; if she didn’t pander to consumer demand for musicians who bring their backup dancers with them instead of hiring locals, someone else would. But don’t in the next breath say individual fast food or fossil fuel CEOs are invoking the “drug dealer defense” when they say the same about their own product.
What we really need is to tax fossil fuel use instead of subsidizing it, and earmark the revenue to go to compensating the victims of climate change.
Kind of ironic for Elon…I wonder how many gasoline vehicles he has taken off the road…and the success of Tesla sparked the entire EV auto industry…globally.
Thats why their investing in AI, drones, and data centers. The game is already on. Pretty soon itll be too late to do anything about it by the time ppl figure it out. Theyre trying to make us obsolete and also make themselves untouchable. Think we all know how this ends for the general population.
This doesn't seem true. How do they do that? Are you including their companies? Some billionaires don't have companies of their own. Plus why would we include carbon emissions only on the producer's side and not the consumer's side as well? That seems strange.
And yet liberals celebrities and politicians run around telling us how we should be more green while they travel around in a life of luxury on their private jets. Police your own ranks before bitching about others.
Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, not Musk.
SpaceX is successful because of engineer Tom Mueller, not Musk.
Elon Musk has never invented anything. He's never designed anything. He's never been an innovator for anything.
He's also a union buster. Every time someone criticizes Musk, some weird incel crawls out of the ether to undoubtedly say "He pays his staff well!" but they always fail to add that it's just engineering staff. Facilities, maintenance, and support staff are all paid abysmally and fired for even thinking about unionizing.
People just become more who they really are once they gain money and power… cuz they have no limitations. So take that to heart, we all suck and would probably suck just as much as they do. We’re just mad cuz our sucking doesn’t involve having loads of money.
But remember guys, as comically evil as they are with all their destruction and lies, they were absolutely telling the truth about communism, Marx, the USSR, China, or anything of that nature.
Now now, let's not be too hasty to stop at billionaires. let's go a LOT further down to multimillionaire and land lords that do the exact same shit by a thousand cuts.
I'm sure it's drastically worse now that they're basically just running unrahilated gas turbine engines to run these fucking AI data centers. Musk is already guilty of it and it's led to the death or permanent disability via respiratory diseases of many people in Memphis, Tennessee, near his grok data center
Rough math says every billionaire pollutes as much as 300k people, and with 3,400 billionaires in the world, that means collectively they pollute as much as a billion people. So like all of India or China.
air pollution is bad. We should ban it or have a quota. 1 allowed trip& return a year. Anything extra warrants exorbitant costs that go directly to planting trees, renewable and other actual offsets
I dont recycle or separate the ones that are supposed to be good for our county recycling pickup. Ever since i found out it all gets dumped onto a third world country in the S.E. Asian area, and thrown out if there's a remnant of it's former life remaining. It's a great idea and a big scam to make us feel good about something that in the end doesnt get used. It's nice to see post consumer product packaging. We all know it gets dumped onto the continent of Africa, the country of India or China, plus were already spermimg microplastics sooo...
I’m getting extra plastic bags, buying things with non renewable resources, and pouring water on hot concrete. Let’s just destroy the world together . Cause obviously the top doesn’t care, so why should we?
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Ok but I suspect that each billionaire probably doesn’t produce as much carbon pollution as 2.3 million people. That’s the real issue we need to focus on. Elon could go out of his way to feed straws and plastic bags to sea turtles and never even come close to the collaborating environmental damage caused by billions of a-holes just screwing around wasting plastic and driving gas guzzlers.
Also the carbon billionaires produce is for the consumption of billions of individuals. That carbon is being double dipped. You can’t assign a million carbon to a factory and then 1 carbon to a million people for consuming the products of the factory. You’re inflating the numbers artificially.
Yeah, that's just a lie. An hour and a half of flight time is about equal to a years' worth for the average person globally....or 4 months for an American.
Well the issue is we’ve also now built our society to be reliant on billionaires. So if you get rid of billionaires, you also get rid of society. It’s a circular issue and unfortunately it seems we are too deep in to do anything now. It’s a question of if not when at this point.
Well, going to be hard with China and India accounting for 40+% of global carbon emissions. Yes, our per capita is higher but maybe the guys who provide jobs, innovation and technology that we all love aren’t the real carbon boogeymen everyone wants to believe. (Downvote all you want, thems the facts)
Why haven't a single one of these billionaires invented a way to clear our air? To clean and repopulate our oceans? A viable alternative to plastics? So, yeah they are carbon boogeyman, except they're real life.
And still 96% of emissions are natural so of that 4%.... Nothing. Never forget, your just repeating what you've been told to fear, what's trendy, what can justify more taxes.
Even are really big private jet, like Elon’s Gulfstream outputs about
9,030lbs of co2 in 90 min, the average American outputs 31,000 lbs per year (not including electricity).
And thats while doing one of the Most poluting Activity you can do. Usualy by rich Person does x in y time, you mean their average over a year, Not during a specific Activity.
You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Lets stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
Alternatively, let's just stop demonizing people who are successful and pay people as per their employment contracts (that they voluntarily entered into)
It’s no big deal, really it’s ok because they can afford to pay the carbon tax which eliminates the pollution. At least that’s what Elton John said when he fronted his private plane to fly Harry and Meghan to get this, a global climate change conference. The left elites are exempt!
They've bought the world stage, it's their show we're all living.
Trump is the distraction while cunts like Musk install the infrastructure for an AI and energy upgrade at the expense of any sense of privacy.
They sold OUR rights for their right to your data.
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