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greenmarty ,

Aren’t you now glad we aren’t all ultra rich mofos ? Noone would be able to breathe that out.

IHadTwoCows ,

Enjoy this relevant ahort film by Denis Villeneuve (hook me up, pipe bot!)

youtu.be/t60MMJH_1ds?si=otBkF4zH6KTndfMn

Daft_ish ,

ITT: People who don’t understand cradle to grave manufacturing. When I decide to make a product I take on responsibility for that product until it is no longer in use and has been properly disposed of. That is ethical manufacturing as decided by industry.

If your product is transportation then you are responsible for the emissions created by transporting. The consumer gets no say in it. Even if they were extremely well researched, which no consumer has that type of resources, they are still not privy to all of a businesses practices at every level.

Assholes in this thread want to push off all the responsibility on to consumers, as if being a consumer is unethical. This is a scapegoat for manufacturers who don’t want to foot the bill because their product is not viable if you consider the all the corners they cut.

Don’t believe me, look up any lawsuit that deals with any superpac. Businesses are responsible.

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

No shit?

Of course the 1% are accounting for the majority of personal emissions, they are the only ones who can afford to.

What I want to know is how much of the total emissions are non private in origin.

Rognaut ,

If that shit were cheaper, people would be all over it.

yournamehere ,

so we cut cut emissions by 60% with a guillotine

pelerinli ,

Or… we can just double the efford for maximizing gains and see introducing 2% with guillotine give as profit?

WindowsEnjoyer ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1c0890c4-bdda-4779-8c91-49f197f4d3b8.jpeg

piecat ,

Temporary solution

Adramis ,

It feels disingenuous at best to lump in people making $60k/year with Jeff Bezos and other billionaires. Just twelve billionaires account for 2,100,000 homes worth of emissions, and that’s only the raw output of their travel and other direct expenses: theguardian.com/…/twelve-billionaires-climate-emi…

Yes, we can all do our bit to help out, but workers pointing fingers at other workers will only ever benefit the ruling class.

merc ,

Yeah, 1% of 8.1 billion is 81 million. So, it’s roughly the top 10% of population of the wealthiest countries.

That includes both Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, but also middle managers in marketing, astronomers, HR managers, air traffic controllers, etc.

Pipoca ,

Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, …

“Billionaires generate obscene amounts of carbon pollution with their yachts and private jets – but this is dwarfed by the pollution caused by their investments,” said Oxfam International’s inequality policy adviser Alex Maitland.

“Through the corporations they own, billionaires emit a million times more carbon than the average person. They tend to favour investments in heavily polluting industries, like fossil fuels. …

The carbon footprints of the investments were calculated by examining the equity stakes that the billionaires held in companies. Estimates of the carbon impact of their holdings was calculated using the company’s declarations on scope 1 emissions – direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by a company – and scope 2, indirect emissions.

Most of that isn’t their direct expenses, but from the businesses they own. Their actual travel and direct expenses are a small fraction of the emissions stated in that:

A superyacht kept on permanent standby generates about 7,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, according to the analysis.

“The emissions of the superyachts are way above anything else,”

The average carbon footprint in the US is 16 tons. 7000/16 = 437.5. The emissions of these billionaires is mostly not private jets and super yachts, and the emissions from super yachts and private jets are a very small percentage of the US’s total transportation emissions.

guacupado ,

The emissions of these billionaires is mostly not private jets and super yachts, and the emissions from super yachts and private jets are a very small percentage of the US’s total transportation emissions.

I’d say their personal emissions for their luxuries are still significantly several times the average person.

Pipoca ,

Sure. In terms of directly produced emissions, most billionaires emit somewhere between 100-1000 times as much as the average American.

Which, yeah, isn’t all that equitable. But there just aren’t that many billionaires, and there’s hundreds of millions of average Americans.

It’s not like wealth, where the richest 735 billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest 166 million Americans.

Fredthefishlord ,

Yes, we can all do our bit to help out, but workers pointing fingers at other workers will only ever benefit the ruling class.

Don’t forget that you have more than one finger. You have fingers to spare to point blame at those who deserve it, and few of us in first world countries don’t.

vimdiesel ,

when you own 90% of the wealth and resources, i’m kind of shocked that is “poorest 90%”

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

eat the rich! a bearded man once told us

ComradePorkRoll ,

I’m now a Marxist-Cannibalist.

Wouldn’t eating the rich be survival cannibalism at this point?

ShaggySnacks ,

Some say cannibalism, some say saving the Earth.

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

If I could, I would give your comment two likes.

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

All ways of extinguishing the massive concentration of wealth are valid and welcome.

greenmarty ,

Burn them at the stick !!! 🥵 🤗

Arthur_Leywin ,

Was it perhaps an irishladdie?

Aux ,

That’s bullshit of a report. If you read it, you will quickly learn how they calculate emissions from the rich. They include things like owning company shares and having influence over the media. So if Bezos owns a major stake in Amazon, he is automatically responsible for all Amazon emissions. And if his PR team publishes some stuff to FB, he’s now responsoble for emissions of Facebook servers. That’s utter bullshit.

If you buy from Amazon, it’s YOU who are responsoble for all associated emissions like delivery, manufacturing, etc, not Bezos. This report also doesn’t take into account that better off people usually live in well-insulated homes, drive more efficient cars and eat better organic food, thus reducing their footprint further.

This report also mentions yachts and private jets a lot, but don’t forget that ALL airtraffic accounts only for 2% of all emissions and private jets are a drop in the ocean.

maynarkh ,

If you buy from Amazon, it’s YOU who are responsoble for all associated emissions like delivery, manufacturing, etc, not Bezos.

That would only be true if Amazon had real competition and would not be acting like a monopoly, as many other companies do.

statist43 ,

And if they would offer a envoirementfriendly alternative, that nobody uses.

But let me tell you a non secret, they dont give a shit

rchive ,

Amazon is very much not a monopoly. There are thousands of online retailers. There are also a lot of delivery services, no idea if there are thousands, but there’s a lot.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t it more planet reponsible then to order from Amazon where, if I order say 6 items, they’ll come from the same warehouse in the same delivery (at least ove here!) instead of in 6 deliveries from 6 different vendors who also all had to get individual deliveries of their stock first?

Aux ,

Yes, it’s better to bulk order from Amazon. Just don’t order one small thing like a screwdriver, a whole truck driving around for your 100g package is dumb.

kablammy ,

Surely it’s still more efficient for the truck to carry that screwdriver and a whole truckload of other goods, in a single journey, with optimised route, rather than me (and every other Amazon shopper) driving my car to the nearest hardware store to buy that screwdriver?

Aux ,

You can walk.

sockenklaus ,
@sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works avatar

Lol your statement doesn’t hold true for where I live. We live more or less in the vicinity of the nearest Amazon warehouse, like 50 km away…

When we order several (like 6) items, they send 6 packages, each individually packed, with 6 delivery drivers over two days, ringing three times a day (noon, afternoon, late evening).

This is purely anecdotal but almost comically bad logistics…

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

That sounds almost like a parody of Amazon. 🤣

kablammy ,

Weird. I usually get the option to combine items in a single load, even if it means delaying some items to arrive together with others.

Aux ,

Amazon is NOT a monopoly. And the problem here is not Amazon, but the products YOU buy. It doesn’t matter if you buy from Amazon or Wallmart or whatever.

commie ,

the problem here is not Amazon

yes, it is.

Aux ,

No, it’s not.

commie ,

i’ve presented exactly the same amount of proof that you have.

Aux ,

What proof? Amazon is not a monopoly, that’s a fact.

EatATaco ,

eat better organic food

A slight nit-pick here, but when it comes to greenhouse gas impact, organic food may be worse. It’s certainly not clearly better.

GiveMemes ,

Almost definitely worse lol. We have the option to modify the genome of the plants we eat in order to make then better in every way and still some people are like “no that’s icky because science”.

sixCats ,

GMO != organic as far as I know?

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Usually people assume organic is the opposite of GMOs and stuff, but it’s also nonsense because they’d never drink water straight from a puddle, but want the shit on their crops to be as untreated as possible. Or well, sold to them that way, of course it’s not, it’s just fertilizer #2 instead of the - more efficient and hence indirectly better for the environment - fertilizer #1.

GiveMemes ,

In the US organic means no GMOs as well according to usda

sixCats ,

Gotcha. That’s a shame

CraigeryTheKid ,

Yeah I’ve overheard that before too. If they would just change their words to “eat less meat” they’re be right, but to only say “organic” implies standard agriculture is worse, and it is not clearly so.

We should eat less meat though.

Aux ,

We sholdn’t eat less meat, meat is pretty much zero emission and closed loop food production. We should more.

vimdiesel ,

organic food definitely uses more resources per unit output than “commercial” ag. It can’t supply the world’s food supply unless they greatly increase their capabilities. It’s either “modern methods” or we reduce the worlds population.

Mamertine ,

better off people usually live in well-insulated homes…

Remember Al Gore’s house that he was touting back around 2007 as super energy efficient? Then some news outlets reported it used 25x as much energy as a normal single family home.

Snopes looked into it and said false, it only uses 10x as much electricity as a normal house, but that’s okay because it’s 4 times the size of a normal house.

SCB ,

I mean yeah, that’s a really good savings.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll be honest, I do believe that CEOs should be personally held repsonsible for the shit their companies pull, in general. And after-the-fact, too. If you led a company and later it gets fined for something it did while you were CEO, that’s on you. Say 50% of fines have to be paid by the C-suites personally.

But independent of that, in a report such as this, it of course makes little sense because the title wants to strongly suggest they create more carbon emissions as consumers (say via owning yachts and shit) than the poorest 66%. And that’s a very false equivalence. Now you could argue they’re responsible for more carbon emissions, and I would maybe agree with that, yes. They make the decisions that enable this carbon usage, and they could, if they wanted to, cut large swathes of it albeit probably not lasting.

But yeah, agreed, pretty shit headline.

Aux ,

The point of a Limited Company is that people who own and work for the company are not held responsible for the actions of the company. Exceptions apply, of course. This is done to protect people from the failures of the business. If the company you work for goes bankrupt for whatever reason, you don’t want to owe millions to the creditors of the company out of your pocket.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Limited Liability Company just means there aren’t any shareholders. Only the owner can be held to account and/or will lose money if the business goes under.

Every trucker that owns their own vehicle/routes is running an LLC and it isn’t so they can be protected from the failure of their business, it’s because they’re the only ones who will be impacted if the company goes under.

Source: I was an Owner-Operator and had to learn this terminology when setting up my LLC.

vimdiesel ,

Go look at any multimillionaire’s house in California and then compared its resource usage to a dilapidated trailer in the deep south in a poor county. They’ll be using 50-100x the resources of the poor family.

Aux ,

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    commie ,

    don’t punch down. that’s fucking gross.

    Aux ,

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    commie ,

    If you buy from Amazon, it’s YOU who are responsoble for all associated emissions like delivery, manufacturing, etc, not Bezos.

    no, i’m not.

    Aux ,

    Yes, you are.

    commie ,

    i’ve presented exactly the same amount of proof that you have.

    c0mbatbag3l ,
    @c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

    Please explain how you aren’t responsible for the emissions used to manufacture/deliver the product that you personally purchased.

    Did someone force you to buy it? No? Then it’s your fault.

    REDUCE. REUSE. RECYCLE.

    The more products you consume, the more emissions for those products. If you don’t like it, then don’t buy it. Source from responsible retailers, or at least don’t buy from fucking Amazon. Everything about the system we live in exists because people like you throw money at billionaires and then complain that they’re rich.

    “I’m not responsible for being a consumer whore” is the exact lack of personal responsibility that makes anything else you say a joke.

    commie ,

    Please explain how you aren’t responsible for the emissions used to manufacture/deliver the product that you personally purchased.

    if i don’t buy it, will the producer have already done all the pollution? if i don’t buy it, will any fewer trucks run? no. but if the producer doesn’t make it, the pollution doesn’t happen. the fault lies entirely with the producers.

    NikkiDimes ,

    What is demand?

    Christ, the number of people who don’t understand basic economics…

    c0mbatbag3l ,
    @c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

    This guy either has no sense of personal responsibility or he doesn’t understand supply and demand for shit.

    commie ,

    “supply and demand” isn’t a magic phrase that makes me responsible for what other people do.

    Dkcecil91 ,

    Personal responsibility has been an excellent tool for large corporations who make deliberate business decisions causing their manufacturing process to be worse for workers and the environment. Belief in personal responsibility as a serious value is what allowed a scam like recycling to be knowingly pushed by polluters for decades as a consumer-driven solution that requires little to no work from producers even though most products can’t be recycled anyway and recycling is, in fact, not a solution to anything in and of itself.

    commie ,

    I think you replied to the wrong comment.

    commie ,

    this is handwaving, not a rebuttal.

    c0mbatbag3l ,
    @c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

    If people don’t buy a product, then there’s no demand.

    If there’s no demand, a product doesn’t get created.

    Do you think people are out here making shit for fun until someone comes along and purchases it? That producers produce in a vacuum without any kind of reason as to why? They make it cause you’ll buy it. Therefore the consumers create the demand that leads to the product being produced in the first place.

    It’s insane that you can fundamentally misunderstand basic economics this much, to think the consumers don’t have any effect on what is created.

    commie ,

    If there’s no demand, a product doesn’t get created.

    that’s just not true. people make things without a proven market all the time. in fact, all consumer goods are made before they are proven to be able to be sold.

    commie ,

    “I’m not responsible for being a consumer whore”

    i didn’t say that.

    GladiusB ,
    @GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s one way to not be accountable

    wizzor ,

    It is worth noting that the richest 1% includes everyone who makes more than 140k$/year.

    grue ,

    ITT: people who don’t realize that the article is talking about them because they’re either in that 1% or damn close to it.

    JohnDClay ,

    Yeah, 60k/year per person is the top 1% globally. That’s about 60% of the us if I’m doing my math right.

    vox.com/…/charity-philanthropy-americans-global-r…

    statista.com/…/percentage-distribution-of-househo…

    TaTTe ,

    60% of the US population is like 200 million. 1% of the global population is 80 million. Your maths is way off.

    I’d assume something closer to 6% of the US are in the top 1%.

    JohnDClay ,

    Oh the second source was household income rather than individual, putting the percentage at about 37% of us households are in the globally top 1%.

    TaTTe ,

    Still doesn’t add up. 37% of the US population is 120 million. 1% of the global population is still 80 million.

    Are you comparing US household income to global individual income? If that’s the case I can see your percentages working, but that comparison doesn’t make much sense so I’m still lost.

    Maggoty ,

    Yup most of the Western world is in the top 1 percent. The rest of the Western world benefits from it.

    It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem. It’s me.

    aubertlone ,

    Quoting Taylor Swift is… an interesting choice when talking about climate changes.

    Didn’t her recent tour require 90+ semi trucks just to go from city to city? Not even going to mention all the emissions that result from whenever they have to travel by plane.

    Yes, popular music acts that tour are a HUGE part of the problem.

    Also, my bad I’m not tryna harp on you just because I recognized a song lyric. I’m a Taylor Swift fan myself. Well, more of a chiefs fan. And by value of the transitive property…

    Edit: also apparently all air travel only accounts for about 2% of emissions. So while my point isnt technically wrong it’s missing the forest for the trees

    SCB ,

    Didn’t her recent tour require 90+ semi trucks just to go from city to city? Not even going to mention all the emissions that result from whenever they have to travel by plane.

    Yes, popular music acts that tour are a HUGE part of the problem

    They absolutely are not. 90 trucks is nothing.

    At any given time there are millions of semis (2.97 million total) driving the streets. Literally every single thing you’ve ever purchased in your life has been on a semi.

    90 trucks driving for a couple months is not significant.

    aubertlone ,

    I already mentioned I was wrong about the air travel. I looked up the numbers and edited my comment immediately.

    Yeah the trucks are a drop in the sea as well.

    But stop kidding yourself that the 90 semi trucks is nothing. It’s all pollution.

    What other tour and/or concert is slipping around 90 semi trucks??

    You bring up a good point that there are millions of semi trucks on the road. But that’s ridiculous to compare her 90 semi trucks to all the trucks on the road

    Let’s compare her to other touring artists. To be honest I don’t have the numbers off top of my head I’ll have to look him up. But I was reading an article the other day about how her tour is one of the largest productions to date.

    So no, her 90 trucks are not a huge part of the problem. That wording was wrong on my part. But among touring artist, she is easily one of the biggest polluters.

    Carighan ,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    Honestly 90 semi trucks are a tiny problem. So once we’re down to pop acts, we solved climate issues already. Long solved.

    aubertlone ,

    As I replied to other people, yes the wording was poor.

    But, it’s so silly to compare her fleet of semi trucks to all the semi trucks in the world. I mean wouldn’t it make a bit more sense to compare her to other touring acts? Was just reading an article yesterday about how hers is one of the largest and most expensive tours ever.

    Zpiritual ,

    That’s nothing. If 90 trucks were a HUGE part of the problem we’d have solved that in an hour. The problem is in the millions of trucks, cars, ships, airplanes, plants, etc.

    aubertlone ,

    Yes my wording was terrible. you’re right that it’s the millions of other things constantly polluting that’s the problem.

    My point was just that her tour is one of the largest ever. Largest ever also means one of the most polluting ever.

    Maggoty ,

    It’s a joke with many layers

    aubertlone ,

    fwiw I used to live in India many years ago.

    Was lucky enough to emigrate to the states when I was eight years old. We didn’t have a car back then. My dad had a moped that we used a lot.

    But yeah, I didn’t use to be part of the problem. But now I am as well

    merc ,

    Just how small do you think the western world is? The US alone is 330 million, which is 4% of the world’s population.

    Maggoty ,

    And the EU is 450M.

    By the numbers a bit less than half the Western world is in the one percent.

    Edit - I should have been more clear above. I was thinking about countries, not people.

    EatATaco ,

    It’s funny how often people who are in the global 5-10% talk about how clueless the 1% of the West is, while being so clueless about their own wealth.

    merc ,

    The world’s population is about 8.1 billion. The top 1% of that is 81 million. The population of the G7 (a reasonable substitute for the richest countries) is approx 800 million. So, if you’re in the top 10% and in a G7 country, you’re in that top 1%.

    Top 10% income in the US is approx $170k per year. That’s mid-level manager wages.

    NikkiDimes , (edited )

    Are you not conflating top 10% of wealthy people with top 10% of wealth? Looking at these differently vastly changes the results, e.g.:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a0ee2ea3-5881-4d7c-9b2f-abd12f45c1d3.png

    Of course, in the real world numbers are much more skewed and you have hundreds of millions in developing nations at the bottom making literal pennies a day, bringing the “top 10%” of wealth (not top 10% of wealthy people) to include some single mom making 45k in the US.

    merc ,

    I understand the distinction you’re making, but in this case we’re talking about the top 1% of wealthiest people. From the article:

    The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019

    Also, the phrase “the top 10% of wealth” doesn’t really make any sense. How can wealth itself have percentiles? A percentile shows the percentage of scores that a particular score surpassed. So, the wealthiest 10% means people whose wealth is higher than 90% of other people. What would the top 10% of wealth be?

    I think the point you’re trying to make is that the top 0.01% are much, much wealthier than the typical person in the top 1%, and probably one individual in that top 0.01% probably contributes as much CO2 as hundreds or thousands of people who are merely in the top 1%. And, I fully agree. But, this article has put the cutoff at the top 1%, which includes both Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates but also your dentist, the guy who owns the Chevy dealership, and the woman who manages the HR department.

    Two things can be true. In this case, it’s that the ultra-wealthy with private jets, multiple houses, etc. live lifestyles that put out vast amounts of CO2. But, also, a fairly average American lifestyle is also very CO2 intensive, compared to how a poor person in India or Cameroon lives.

    ssboomman ,

    In other news, water is wet

    trash80 ,

    The climate chasm between the world’s carbon-guzzling rich and the heat-vulnerable poor forms a symbolic shape when plotted on a graph. Climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions are so heavily concentrated among a rich minority that the image resembles one of those old-fashioned broad-bowled, saucer-shaped glasses beloved of the gilded age: a champagne coupe.

    Do normal people know what a champagne coupe is? I had to look it up.

    Waraugh ,

    Their description makes it sound like a pump glass so I’m going with that

    trash80 ,

    I thought it sounded like a fancy punch bowl.

    Bye ,

    This is why I don’t believe people when they say “we don’t have an overpopulation problem, we have a distribution problem”

    Because if everyone in the world had my lifestyle, we would be emitting an insane amount of carbon. And I don’t want my standard of living to go down, and in fact I want everyone to live as nicely as I do. So clearly we need fewer people.

    NOT_RICK ,
    @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

    Are you flying around the world on PJs constantly?

    SCB ,

    All air travel is only 2% of carbon emissions.

    n2burns ,

    How much of your carbon emissions are due to your quality of life and how much is due to inefficiencies/waste?

    Bye ,

    The vast bulk are from travel and meat consumption

    n2burns ,

    Assuming you live in North America, travel is highly inefficient with personal cars and high airplane usage.

    Meat consumption on the other hand is a lifestyle choice. Personally, if be willing to reduce mine if we stopped subsidizing the industry and therefore stopped incentivizing such high consumption.

    kablammy ,

    Why are you waiting until the meat industry is no longer subsidised to reduce your meat consumption?

    n2burns ,

    I’m on a budget. I eat less meat than the average North American, but I still need protein and meat is a lot less expensive than many of the alternatives, partially because we subsidize the meat industry so much.

    commie ,

    meat consumption doesn’t emit any carbon.

    n2burns ,

    Meat production does, and you can’t consume meat that doesn’t exist.

    commie ,

    once it’s produced there’s no point in not eating it

    bstix ,

    The overpopulation isn’t happening in the 1%.

    It makes jack shit of a difference to the environment if there is one billion or two billion starving people. They’re not the ones burning carbon or eating steak.

    Syrc ,

    But we want to stop those people from starving. And if we ideally lived in a world where no one is starving, emissions would go up astronomically.

    bstix ,

    Only when assuming that it’s necessary to pollute as much as the 1% do to achieve a similar standard of living. It doesn’t have to.

    Looking at energy production, developing nations can and are skipping several decades of advances. They don’t have to go through the same phases where they chop down all the trees, dig up all the coal and burn all the oil. They can go directly to renewables, because the technology already exists, and they do.

    In regards to food, it’s obvious that we need to advance our agricultural technology. Even just the 1% isn’t sustainable. We will need to fix it regardless of whether we “want” to feed 1% or 100%, because it’s a massive problem already. The times of Ol’ McDonalds self-sustainable farm are long gone. It’s a meat factory, and it’s taking all of our resources and all of our land, and it simply shouldn’t.

    Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to address this politically because most of the population are still oblivious to how food is actually produced and how damaging it is to the environment. With how few people are actually employed in agriculture these days, it’s absolutely amazing how much political support they have for their business.

    rchive ,

    On the other hand, if everyone in the world had your lifestyle the world would be much more wealthy and could make a lot of positive changes.

    Franzia ,

    I want everyone to have my lifestyle

    Its the thought that counts, but no thanks

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    You don’t say…

    andrew ,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    The cover photo is a jet plane but remember, US$140,000/year is the threshold they’re quoting in the article so the reality is more like a decent car or two and a house in a nicer area will drop you into that range.

    Clent ,

    1% of the world’s population is 80,000,000 people.

    There is too much variance in a population that large to make any reasonable statements or suggest adjustments.

    We already know that people living on pennies per day aren’t the problem.

    P1r4nha ,

    But shouldn’t it be easier to adjust the lifestyle of 80 million people rather than 8 billion?

    And there are a few easy ones almost everyone in the 1% can chip in: reduce meat consumption, don’t fly, buy local and don’t buy single use items

    F_Haxhausen ,
    @F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world avatar

    …stanford.edu/…/could-going-vegan-help-reduce-gre…

    …columbia.edu/…/vegetarian-vegan-diets-climate-ch…

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    The problem here is that this research works from a Capitalist understanding of responsibility. That is to say that Besos is responsible for the emissions of Amazon, musk for space x, etc. Which means absolutely nothing. It’s a bullshit number.

    P1r4nha ,

    How else would you account for it? Am I responsible for 0.001% of Amazon’s CO2 emissions because I order sometimes from them?

    rchive ,

    I think the answer is yes.

    P1r4nha ,

    Poor Besos cannot decide what and how he delivers. He just needs to deliver to anybody who posts an order on the website someone put up on the internet. Kinda like Santa?

    rchive ,

    He can decide, and his middle managers can decide, and you can also decide by choosing to shop from somewhere else.

    P1r4nha ,

    How do I know which shop is the best? I don’t. Neoliberal fantasies only work with an informed consumer, just like democracies only work with educated voters.

    That’s why you can’t make consumers responsible for the emissions the suppliers emit.

    rchive ,

    The information is out there if you wanna find it. The truth is most people don’t care, though. That’s on us.

    P1r4nha ,

    Misinformation is also out there unfortunately. Can’t believe for instance people are still debating whether plant-based diets are better for the climate or not.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    You think you’re not?

    P1r4nha ,

    I don’t really have knowledge nor control over how green Amazon’s delivery is. If you shift responsibility to a party that cannot make well-informed decisions, you kind of end up with the mess we currently have, no?

    The whole idea of money not having a memory is a huge scheme of capitalists to get out of any kind of responsibility.

    SCB ,

    Amazon has the best logistics infrastructure of any company in the world. It is literally the most efficient system of moving goods ever known to mankind.

    You are responsible for the carbon footprint of things you purchase, yes. This is why things like carbon taxes with dividends are such good ideas.

    commie ,

    You are responsible for the carbon footprint of things you purchase

    no, you’re not.

    SCB ,

    Well, you’re not, but your parents are.

    Whoever actually buys the thing is.

    commie ,

    wrong. the pollution from production is the fault of the producers. they can choose to do otherwise.

    SCB ,

    Gotta love commie logic lol

    Have fun on Thanksgiving break.

    commie ,

    “commie logic” is attributing culpability to the people who do things. i wonder what kind of logic wouldn’t make people responsible for their own actions?

    P1r4nha ,

    I work at a corporation. We don’t do environmentally the right thing because leadership doesn’t care and operation needs to be cheap. Whenever I suggest something it falls on deaf ears.

    It’s very obvious who can decide to change something in a company.

    SCB ,

    Weird. I work at a corporation and our entire model is built on sustainability

    Not sure how this is relevant to any of this discussion tho

    P1r4nha ,

    The point is that neither employees nor consumer can be responsible for the decisions of capitalists. And they aren’t held responsible by anybody, not even by normal people like you. Come on… connecting points here with you.

    SCB ,

    Oh no, I get it. It’s just adorably wrong.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    You are the person to set in motion the apparatus necessary to accomplish the task that you wanted to be accomplished.

    Yes you live in this late stage capitalist hellscape with the rest of us, but that doesn’t absolve you from being critical and making the best decisions in it.

    P1r4nha ,

    The point is that the decision can’t be good because no company discloses the environmental impact of a single product. So even if I had choices, I can only choose based on price. My only hope is that efficient logistics are also cheaper and better for the environment.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    Yes as an overarching critique that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. My problem is that this doesn’t absolve us from our responsibility. If choice A leaves trails of chemicals behind but costs less than B that leaves purity behind. I can definitely critique people who choose to get A.

    Mainly because the other option is to choose to not consume. For example veganism doesn’t apply to what you’re saying. It’s a conscious decision based on ethical values. The same thing can be true for people who don’t use cars.

    And even if there is a choice between lesser evils, it’s still a choice of consequence.

    P1r4nha ,

    I already don’t use a car and I eat vegetarian. I’ve got the “individual choices” covered. The problem is that at some point you’re standing in the store googling every single product and their producer to find some kind of issue with it so you can’t buy it. That’s not a sustainable way to live.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    Okay but this also doesn’t absolve you from your responsibility. At some point you’re going to make a decision about where your personal boundaries in weighing your options are. And if you’re not driving and eating (a lot) less animal products you’re further ahead of the curve than others. But deciding when you find things unsustainable, it is still another decision.

    Most people don’t feel or don’t see a positive difference from their choice. So they let go of their responsibilities because of it. If there is no positive impact it doesn’t matter what they do, is their thinking.

    While when you look in the supermarket now compared to ten years ago… Meat substitutes, vegan products, plant milks are abundant. So, things are changing, the choices people make are influential. It just isn’t immediate. But even within capitalism the market is responding to changes, from the personal choices of people like you and me. It’s slow and tedious, but things change.

    P1r4nha ,

    You know why it’s slow though, right? Specifically the meat industry is highly subsidized and they can undersell any vegan substitute to destroy their margin in the still small and slowly growing market. Even though meat production should clearly be more expensive than some vegan substitute.

    Look: Consumer can either buy a product or they don’t. I can’t make producers stop using plastic for packaging. I can only not buy their products until some producer may think of a plastic free packaging. Change always comes from the top, not from the bottom.

    What you’re asking for is that consumer somehow know the details of how the products are produced. For example whether the chocolate they buy is from child slaves or not. Sure, you can read about it, but is it clearly declared in the store whether that specific chocolate is child slave free or not? The only action they can take is not buy the chocolate. Or they ask. The store clerk doesn’t know better either. The producer doesn’t have to disclose this, responds with a canned response that doesn’t say yes or no.

    Chocolate is one thing. That’s not a necessity for every day life. But cars in the US. Smart phones almost everywhere. If you don’t have them, you cannot participate in life. And we need to eat too.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    Look I share the same frustrations. And true change can only come from political actions. Laws, oversight, fines, taxation, enforcement… Leaving change to the market isn’t a solution to anything. We can’t consume our way out of this problem.

    But that’s also not the point of our conversation, I’m trying to make clear that as a consumer you still bare responsibility over what you consume.

    The problem is when people throw their hands up and just ‘get what they need’ mindlessly. That’s also a choice.

    When we can make choices that are clearly better and more ethical, we should. So it is on us to do the best we can, within the system we find ourselves in. We should strive for systemic (political) change outside of consumption, as well. One doesn’t get nullified by the other.

    clearleaf ,

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c926ae36-12a2-4fd1-bc0f-50e9e5d1dba7.jpeg

    Daft_ish , (edited )

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4055eebb-6254-43fa-8851-a87bd7df934d.webm

    Industry already decided this argument and it’s called cradle to grave.

    SCB ,

    This is absolutely a dog shit example of math, but in no way is anyone involved at all employing capitalist understandings of anything.

    This entire study is a fiction designed to point the finger at a small subset of people.

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    Okay so you rather think they were doing it on purpose than doing from ideology. I have a bit more regard for people I guess

    SCB ,

    I think they’re arguing entirely from ideology, but that the ideology is not at all “pro capital”

    nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN ,

    That’s a mischaracterization of what it means to argue from ideology. They only have to accept the idea that ownership of the means of production means ownership of the pollution from the means of production.

    Which is a. Very common and b. The only explanation through which this research makes sense without attributing malice.

    SCB ,

    The research is just bad science and sought from the start to attribute climate change to as few people as possible.

    “Scientists say it’s your average joe driving to work who is killing the world” doesn’t sell.

    Pipoca ,

    In the US, 7% of transportation emissions are commercial air travel, while 58% are passenger cars.

    Flying is worse per-trip than driving, but car centric infrastructure is worse than flying.

    Similarly, what you eat is way more important than how far it traveled. Most agricultural emissions happen at the farm.

    It’s actually better for the environment to grow tomatoes in Florida or Mexico and ship them to NYC in the fall or winter than to grow tomatoes locally in a heated greenhouse.

    SCB ,

    People living in pennies per day are actually a huge part of the problem, because they by definition live in industrializing communities.

    Clent ,

    No. That’s just something you made up.

    “Industrializing nations” are easier to address than the nations that have already industrialized.

    The momentum behind existing industry is huge. Like a coal industry that is difficult to dismantle because of regressive political leaders.

    For countries with no existing infrastructure it’s cheaper to go green than not.

    Capitalists demand a return on their polluting industrial investments annd are the majority of the problem.

    If an auto manufacturers started from zero today, they wouldn’t be creating gasoline engines.

    Zero emission aircraft are next but that doesn’t mean the airlines are going to scrap all their existing aircraft engines and the pollution they cause.

    SCB , (edited )

    I didn’t just make this up. This is a huge problem facing the world because those nations have a right to improve for their people (and many, myself included, view developed nations as having an obligation to help these nations modernize), but we cannot allow for them to fully modernize using the processes we did or global warming is dramatically exacerbated.

    This is a real, urgent, and complex problem, and real life is not a game of Civilization. You can’t just start Congo further along down your tech tree and expect them to be totally green.

    BlackSkinnedJew ,

    I believe it talk about the 1% wealthy people not the actual 1% of 8 billion.

    flames5123 ,

    Exactly. I wonder what the top 0.5% emit, or the top 0.1% emit. 140k is just a married couple living in a city. But people that live in a city can take public transit or walk to the store, therefore they won’t be contributing that much to these huge emissions.

    JohnDClay ,

    Is that individually or per household? This article gives 130k per household or 60k per individual.

    vox.com/…/charity-philanthropy-americans-global-r…

    pahlimur ,

    This is my family’s combined income and my god people need to stop thinking we are wealthy. I’m currently staring at a $1000 car on Facebook marketplace to hopefully save some money because I know how to fix it. I am constantly buying cheap shit to afford to live, we are not rich at all. I have more in common with a homeless person than a wealthy person.

    andrew ,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    I don’t disagree with you, but relative to the rest of the world we produce a lot more pollution. If anything, there’s probably a local peak at a certain income where, you know, you can afford a car but not a recent model with newer regulations, and you might have to fix it up to get it just within range for emissions testing. Stuff like that.

    Anyway, it’s not about quality of life, it’s about pollution. I’m with you on the cost of everything, definitely.

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