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Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts::Electric cars? The superrich have already moved on to electric yachts.

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[–] DrManhattan@lemmy.design 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Hey! This guy believes people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy! Get him!”

[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Of course people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy.

The problem is that these specific people are only able to afford these specific nice things because of economic systems that are based on hundreds of millions of people not being able to afford any nice things in life, ever.

Not that I'm specifically blaming multimillionaires and billionaires for the shortcomings of global economy systems.

They have just benefitted from them in the same way other people are suffering from them.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does ecosystem carrying capacity overshoot ring a bell? Individual footprint matters, especially if massively oversized.

[–] DrManhattan@lemmy.design -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sir, we’re talking about boats.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

10 MUSD boats made from graphite epoxy composite and quite a few tons of lithium batteries. And the support infrastructure. And the sum of activities on the cruise. Plus other stuff people who buy such trinkets engage in.

There are peer reviewed publications quantifying that, with some surprising numbers in them. The golden billion has an outsized footprint, but the elites have a hockey stick shaped contribution distribution there.

[–] DrManhattan@lemmy.design -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cool story, bro. You hate boats and the people that enjoy them. We get it.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au -2 points 1 year ago

Those notoriously polluting things in the water?