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So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

People like to point at rich people on planes but really it's actually the car dependency and carnism that are destroying the planet.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Interesting article. Newer numbers (2023) are 37.200 Mt CO~2~ yearly human civilisation output. "Private" cars count around 10% of that (which to my knowledge includes vans driven by tradesmen and "independent" delivery drivers among other uses, vastly distorting the impact of individual car ownership), aviation between 2 and 20% depending on which "emissions factor" the counting organization attaches to it. The IEA numbers vary between 2-4%.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

rich people decide whether we can make the changes necessary