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"Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tons, which is more than three times the emissions of the billionaires' private jets," the study's executive summary reads. "This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world."
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/carbon-inequality-kills/
@jmcrookston We could improve the planet massively by removing billionaires. Anyone who hoards whilst others suffer isn’t human.
@jmcrookston I don't feel like any normal human being would miss 23 yachts if they suddenly disappeared. Or 18 billionaires for that matter.
@alandvalonline @jmcrookston
We wouldn’t miss them, but within a short time after they are gone, & no new billionaires created, we will wake up to all we missed & were denied.
We will grieve what never was, what we didn’t fight for & we did fight for, the harms done, & the quality of life taken from us by a tiny number of men. Maybe 666 of them total.
They have power in financial paper tigers they make us believe in & keep us dependent on it as if it is anything but OUR labor value.
@jmcrookston yachts should just be illegal. Only like twelve people in the world would have a problem with this.
@jmcrookston #Canada's #MarkCarney cut the luxury tax on private yachts and jets along with a free pass on #emissions.
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