ssillyssadass@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoA handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happenmessage-squaremessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1655arrow-down125
arrow-up1630arrow-down1message-squareA handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happenssillyssadass@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI find it hard to believe that emissions would drop by 80% just by getting rid of all the billionaires. Or did you mean all of Western civilization when you said “those responsible for the other 80%”?
minus-squaressillyssadass@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoGuess who, in the end, owns all the factories, the powerplants, the cargo ships, the mines, and who lobbies in favor of them.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoWho buys and uses all the stuff produced by those factories and delivered by those cargo ships?
I find it hard to believe that emissions would drop by 80% just by getting rid of all the billionaires. Or did you mean all of Western civilization when you said “those responsible for the other 80%”?
Guess who, in the end, owns all the factories, the powerplants, the cargo ships, the mines, and who lobbies in favor of them.
Who buys and uses all the stuff produced by those factories and delivered by those cargo ships?