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This infuriates me.
I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it's prohibitively expensive to.
But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.
I think taxing the rich just isn't enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.
They can spend millions trying to reduce everyone’s carbon footprints. Like literally they can lobby for trains and shit. But no they won’t.
Some do
Name one.
Stephen King