• zcd
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    19 hours ago

    A little billionaire cocktail math for you. Each billionaire emits in the neighbourhood of 1 million times more CO2 than the average person. So you streetcar just 3000 or so billionaires and that’s the equivalent of reducing the earth’s population by about 3 billion. Can’t really think of anything greener

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      3 hours ago

      The emissions from their investments … thats the same as the emissions of your place of work or the emissions of the company you buy your stuff from. Lets blame that on an extremely small group of people instead of the billions of people who consume the products enabling them.

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      18 hours ago

      Not that I don’t believe you but I’d love to cite this in future discussions, where did you get your stats from?

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      16 hours ago

      Thats their investments, not their personal use. According to your source anyway.