Climate change and the rich | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2023
- Wealthy people are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than poorer people. To reduce carbon footprints and prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis, one climate researcher is proposing a CO2 cap and trade system for individuals.
Disasters such as droughts, fires, and floods are occurring all over the world, triggered by the climate crisis. To counteract this catastrophe, Germany is among many nations pledging to slow global warming at well below two degrees. To achieve this target, the amount of harmful carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere must be restricted in the coming decades.
If a fundamental principle of justice were applied, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says that each person would be allowed to emit no more than three tons of CO2 per year by 2050. But Germans are a long way from achieving this target, with an average carbon footprint of eight to ten tons. By burning fossil fuels, many millionaires emit more than 100 tons of carbon dioxide per year, and the world’s wealthiest individuals emit thousands of tons each.
Most of the rich protagonists in this film show no willingness to reduce their climate-damaging behavior. One of them flies in a private jet, while another drives a gas-guzzling sports car for fun.
Schellnhuber, a renowned scientist, is therefore calling for a carbon cap to be imposed on individuals, while allowing private trading in CO2 credits. He proposes that each person receives an allowance of three tons of CO2 per year. Those who need more would have to buy from those who consume less, Schellnhuber suggests.
However, German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party is not in favor of individual CO2 caps. In an interview, Habeck says he’s not focused on the question of "individual budgets.”
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narhhh, they just cherry picking on the rich here. trying to blame the rich for their poor state of affairs
@@etobillion7805lol
Excellent point!!!
Did you hear that?? "Luckely the population is split into different groups... " That says it all....
Does he not fear consequences or his business because of this? Cancel culture is real you know.
@@hildaelson4203 yeah super real 🤣
Pls communism do not work.. karma can get him to.. w
We need to stop as society to think it's ok to act like he does with his? money.. If we shamed them not praise them by following them on social media, liking pictures etc that promotes this shit..
We can make it less fun for them
@@hildaelson4203 it's the truth.. i find that he sees people with less money than him as gross & "snotty".. he has the same human body as everyone else. Like he's never sick.. or is sick in a less gross way..
He will be treated same as everyone else if shit hits the fan & he ends up in an ICU
At least he is honest about how he feels unlike the hypocrites in the WEF flying in on their private jets in the name of saving the planet.
The fact is, the people who pollute the most per capita - the richest, are also the people who are best protected from the consequences. Furthermore, a lot of wealthy are old - so they never have to care about the environment.
they also contribute most of the jobs. You are wrong about old people not caring. The Internet gave people like you a tribune to speak. Maybe that's what we should question.
@@felixbors7546 Taxpayers financed the invention of the internet by publicly funded scientists. Maybe we should remind corporate fascists like you once in a while who's really in charge here. The people.
@@felixbors7546 Read again what I wrote. I never said old people don't care. I said because they are old, they don't have to care.
Maybe we should question those who insult others before they understand.
Also, they contribute more jobs in order to generate more wealth and power. They are not doing it for the goodness of their hearts. That is business.
Many old people may be wealthy but I am not sure they are the majority abusing the planet as those arrogant young self righteous young nouveau riche.
@@felixbors7546 This is some Reagan indoctrinated trickle-down bullshit. The world would be just fine with a more equitable distribution of wealth, investment won't suddenly collapse.
The entitlement expressed by the man on the plane is astounding, but not entirely surprising. And there are so many more like him.
Hi, I'm one of them. This is a propaganda piece :)
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds tax you out of existence
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds More like a rather inconvenient truth.
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds it is so much clear propaganda that I feel insulted they try to put it down my throat.
has not changed for millennia
The man on the plane is an ethical failure. I can't understand such lack of empathy and concern. It's utterly disgusting and I can only hope one day he'll face his own harmful ignorance.
So true these kind of people die lonely
But the issue is, we all will face
@@anmolgupta8750 yep
Climate change is for the poors. We have to pay more and more for everything...Read: Rockefeller: Controlling the Game by Jacob Nordangård, Ph.D.
New cities are getting ready for super 🤑 rich people neom city Saudi ,telosa ,city by Elon Musk,bill gates etc
U don't understand how rigged the game really is
Such people avoid taxes and corporate social responsibility for the similar reasons. I'm astounded by the audacity of the guy on the plane.
He's honest.. unlike those flying into davos
The arrogance and sense of self-entitlement of one rich person is enough to offset the efforts of 10 or so households. When some ignorant celebrity's jet produces more CO2 than a 100 cars for just a 5 minute relocate, why on earth do we still bother. Unless some drastic measures are taken to curb the output of people like this, it all feels a bit pointless.
It is pointless and any further persistence on this will only affect the poor even further.
First time my poverty is making me feel good because I can't afford to pollute.
Cheap food, cheap tech and cheap clothing pollutes a lot, in order for us to pay cheap stuff there needs to be a lot of pollution. Maybe you don't see it, but you (and we all) are the reason for that pollution being made.
@@HaimRich94 The point is the arrogant greedy rich pollute more than the poor. Everyone pollutes. It is a matter of degree.
@@joeblow5087 And my point is that WE are the ones who are actually financing that pollution on their end. Cheap clothing is probably one of the most polluting industries in the whole world (they pollute more than all the examples given in this video) but people don't care about it and get crazy buying them so those industries continue polluting more and more
Will you also eat bugs to "save the climate"?
@@HaimRich94
I think you need to understand the effect of drugs, mr Rich. 🙂
The idea of creating dependencies on consumers is not a new concept in the corporate world. You cant just "stop buying food", or "reduce your food intakes", because it is "more pollutive". There are several health consequences from such actions. Those are IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS!
"Maybe you don't see it, but you (and we all) are the reason for that pollution being made."
Not to mention that what you suggest goes against the data displayed in the documentary, which would label you "anti-intellectual". Are defying the scientific methods done in the data provided? 🙂
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You are not only free but unemployed also
Thank you for displaying the utter arrogance of the rich. We always knew, but exposing such selfishness is a necessary step towards our survival. Thank you.
He owes you noting. Your just jealous 🤣
I like that hes atleast honest, unlike the btc loving, iPhone (slave labor) tweeting woke gen
says the brokes
@@addictcar69 and...what big fat car is yours? You're the one that's jealous😂
Then why do you continue to buy sh!t and making them rich?
Stop going on holidays and paying for hotels making them rich.
Stop buying phones, tv and gadgets making them rich.
I guess you're part of the problem making these selfish people rich.
I respect brutally honest businessmen more than politicians.
A guy that undresses before small children can be called brutally honest too. That does not change the fact you that he is disgusting.
So would you vote for a brutally honest businessman with these beliefs?
I wouldn't call a condescending scumbag brutally honest but keep licking ig
Why don’t they ever ask about China?,India? other emerging economies. They want Western govts to tax their citizens into oblivion and allow these other countries off the hook?
A false dichotomy
Rich people telling poor people to cut back while causing more damage.
Keep licking those boots because this has always been like this and isn't changing, know your place in society.
One minute in and I've seen everything I need to see. Even if you strip these folks of all their money and material wealth, the thing they'll care about most is not the climate, but their speed in retaining their wealth. If the climate crisis wants to be tackled, change has to be forced upon the rich; they will not change willingly.
and yes judge thousands by one person, you're just as arrogant as he is.
Once climate hits critical level to a point such as where we will walk with respirators on our faces these fools will be the last ones in line to pay for it, and by the time we hit critical they will flee to mars or something. 😅
You're correct 👍
Why are the super rich so annoying?
This is why I don't have any hope for the future. It is not pessimism is just being honest with the reality we are facing.
Sorry my brother, but you are right. We all can now only breach for impact. I wish you happiness where you can still find it be it in this life or thereafter.
Is this man pretending to be a villain? Because I just can’t believe someone this wicked actually exists and would admit to it.
I think hearing the guy on the private jet explains all you need to know about people who are wealthy
Your comment explains that all of those that are poor paint everyone who is rich with the same brush.
do you see what i did there?
This man's first words😳Gross public travels? Snotty nose people?? Wow😧
It’s called entitlement. Welcome to narcicism „deluxe“.
So good that he keeps the lights off in the plane. Glad to see everyone is doing something for a better world 💚❤🌍
I love how all the rules will most likely only affect the working class and not the rich. and all the propoganda that is being pushed will not help anything. the EU exception for private jet for the co2 tax on kero says as much
Thank you so much dw for making people aware about this important discussion.
Prohibition in particular for short private jet flights or hefty taxes. It’s ridiculous how these people spit on the working class people
Last time I was in a class was back in school.
Better to tax them to advance sustainable fuel development.
@@KazMaw1 "Better to tax them to advance sustainable fuel development."
If you announce higher taxes on the rich, they just move their businesses to low-tax countries. That "race to the bottom" among governments, in who offers the least amount of taxes - and more opportunities not to pay them - to corporations is what has led to the widespread material struggle of the working class in industrialised countries over the past four decades of neoliberalism. "Taxing" has long ceased to be a working tool in achieving economic welfare or solving climate crisis.
@@KazMaw1 Tax who/what, fossil fuels or the rich or flights…?
One should only tax fossil fuels and leave everything else tax-free. Then non-fossil energy will grow, whatever it is and people will have full freedom to use whatever non-fossil option is there.
Climate action needs freedom.
@@demil3618 And plastic straws. Plastic straws must be demanded back into people's everyday life. It is degrading when we have to use cardboard straws for drinking. Tyrants took them from us but together we will bring them back.
If you're rich enough to afford a private jet, you're rich enough to afford to not think about anyone else in the world but you.
Pretty much sums it up!
Trash
Thank you for wise conclusion !!
Not really
Every family has that one person who will break the family's financial struggle, I hope you become the one 😊
finally you're _starting_ to address the elephant in the room! have a like
‘Palm trees in the Baltic Coast”! Priceless!
Amazing documentary!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I wish I could get ride of the need for common car travel but it is impossible with the transportation system in my country
So basically let's restrict poor people at 3t co2 and let rich people buy as much as they want from their pocket money....... great idea. Seems fair 🤣
Exactly my thought...
Thanks for the very good investigations DW!
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I think its worth noting the combination of actions required to be effective. For instance, the family that ranks 6.9 tons per person could have that number slashed if the switched to an electric car, perhaps got a more efficient heating system, and Germany managed to make their grid cleaner buy shifting away from an ongoing reliance in coal and natural gas. Those three things alone, which would have essentially no impact on their quality of life, might bring them below 3 tons of CO2 per person. This, in addition to reigning in the egregious buy the few, could be substantial but the solution needs to be holistic
200 private jets flew in WEF members to Davos this year
There should be regulation of private jet flights. However, personal carbon emissions are hard to calculate, and trading carbon credits is misleading because carbon capture is far away, and many reforesting projects would have happened anyway, and aren't done in the places that matter. Instead, they are used as a distraction from easily preventable emissions from fossil fuel reliant companies.
where Is Dicaprio?
Not only 26:02 "not reining in the rich restricts the lives of so many people", but we should also consider international and intergenerational budget constraints, and not only regarding CO2e but also the depletion of other commons like fresh water, biodiversity and the mineral resources that the poor need to cover basic needs but of which they are being priced out to cater to the rich.
Most eloquently put Miguel , well done , every well put explanation helps !
Remember, the earth will surey outlived us all, if we are foolish enough to careless about the earth, it will definitely purged us out. We all know what that means.
Humans will perish like the dinosaurs, it's just a matter of when... In the meantime the rich will enjoy their money, we poor people will suffer to the end.
@user-eu5ey1oz1c : Too late. Conservative-capitalism has already caused a mass extinction event and we will go extinct by our own hand if we continue to allow the few to destroy the many.
@@feleciawallace8420 : Only if we just give up. I don't know about your country, but in mine Nobody is winning because the largest group of American voters keep voting for Nobody (literally).
If we change that, we change the world. But too many people have simply given up, instead.
Nature will purge the parasitic human race soon. Fingers Crossed
@@aylbdrmadison1051 humans are unpredictable. It's better they suffer before going out like the dinos
The man on the private jet seems like a villain out of central casting.
Lex luthor
GREAT WORK DW TEAM🫡👏👏👏
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Hi from Kenya
Maybe the questions to ask those rich, what about your children? Will you be able to look them in the eyes and not be ashamed to tell them that you did not do anything to prevent it?
maybe your vote will make a difference, your everyday behavior might just slow the down the political decisions that need to be made ...
They will be on Mars so all this won't matter
their children will not have to really deal with it. They will also be wealthy from the massive undeserved undertaxee inheritance.
@@Bas201 Those are two statements. One the world is broken. Two thus money is worthless. Sounds deep but I don't think it says much
narhhh, never why would anyone take a world problem and make it theirs.
the idea of a co2 allowance for individuals is absolutely insane and will be used to further hurt the poor and oppressed. Efforts should be focused entirely at large corporations
everything is abou to make the rich richer... and using youtube is one thing that only make youtube richer.
Yep. You get it.
The funny thing is that this video is trying to convince us that the wealthy would follow these rules hahahaha
I was thinking about this the entire time! Rich will continue to do whatever they want, middle class will just be unable to even do the little travelling they still can and poor, well, unfortunately they won't see any change...
Thinking that it will be free for the working class to fight climate change is native. Carbon tax or other similarly working systems is the obvious answer
@@onlyeveryone2253 one thing is a carbon tax (which I was under the impression that some sort of it already existed in fossil fuel related expenses), another is a CO2 allowance. A carbon tax is something that I might be able to understand and support (provided that you have viable, cleaner alternatives), a CO2 allowance no way!
Last night, after midnight, I was wakened 7 times by private jets, taking short cuts and flying low over my house, heading to a private airport. My house gets coated in black carbon, the rain doesn't help, I have to use soap and scrub it off. I wonder how it affects my lungs.
You house is coated in particulate emissions not in CO2. CO2 is a gas. If it would coat anything then the veggies from the greenhouses would be black not green. Yes, it's very damaging to your health. I'd consider moving.
Check ultra fine particles near airports. There was a report from Schiphol that stated even 15 km radius has negative health effects.
@@ksoosk Yep...I used to live in Uithoorn... bloody jets are a nuisance there. Can't hear the person next to you talking, that's how low they fly over the town. And everything got darkened by sooth.
Where do you live? Not good for your health.
Can you contact a local authority like the Transportation or Environment regulatory bodies about it?
Interesting stuff right there!!
27 minutes realizing "who would've thought that rich entitled a-holes were rich entitled a-holes?"
They will tell you it's 'envy'
Just a cry baby,nothing to see here...
@@k.k.8394 I pray everyday I don't become obnoxious like these mfs
Rules for thee, not for mee
DW, my respects for touching very sensitive but true topics and not going in the same direction of everyone of hammering the ordinary people (that have no possibility of recourse) to blame them for being responsible for the climate/pollution.
A normal citizen goes on vacation once a year and maybe, maybe flies there and rich people do weekly jet flights.
Also now with the farming controversy, people eat meat once/twice a week maybe, highly processed, yet are to be blamed for the pollution of cows....while rich people eat that daily and in way meat raised in far more pollutive farms.
Helped excellently for a research that provided insights on how sophisticated people, & rich countries as an extension, feel and act about climate change
Rich people doubled their CO2s. Then tax them X3 as usual.
It always amazes me how easy it is to miss the point!!
@Jeanneret, & what point would that be?
So few Maseratis it’s a tiny fraction of a percentage of all vehicles
A CO2 allowance sounds awfully similar to a social credit score.
Well summed up guys!👍
Thanks for watching:)
Also the assumption about the diesel car seems weird; the average emission is 120g per km so 2,4 kg per back and forth trip so it is 1200 trips not 600 as DW docu gives
You would need at least 30% additional production costs in terms of co2
@@Bas201 that should only be applied to the first buyer not the end user. For example if someone build an house 1950. The labour is already paid for and partially included in the price. Those workers can't claim you own them something
The calculation was made for the specific case of the car of the lady. Short trips (urban cycle) emit more CO2.
The rich people are destroying the world and they blamed the poor people BRAVO!!! 👏
Facts!!
Well, to be fair, everyone's destroying the world, rich and poor. So... it's hypocrisy to blame the rich.
Lol yeah
Thankyou so much for this video👍😊
Thanks for watching!
This is what we need thank you
The guy at the opening justifies eating the rich.
He’s not even rich, he’s a faker wannabe, it’s all fake
he is what you would call a "Lappen"
I just hate poverty
Also, carbon credits will be used against the people. Companies and the elite can afford to buy credits as much as they want. While the middleclass gets told to take the bike
Having the luxury to hop on a private jet to avoid little, noisy, snot-nose kids on the train does sound good though.. just had to put that out there.
Is interesting to see that the green house emition reduction policies are impacting way more the poor than the group the video is talking about. They will not care if electricity bill goes from 5 EUR to 400 EUR, is nothing for them. But for the normal people, is a real kick in the budget.
Because the group of poor people and the total carbon emmissions is way bigger. If you want to lower the emissions you have to look at the bigger picture.
Lets be honest, it's large corporations and factories. Individuals are nothing compared to that. We could all link hands and be as "good" as possible but it wouldn't matter. There are too many people on the planet and too much consumerism.
DW has been doning fantastic job..Now i am addicted to climate change documentary of DW
For lower middle class family they have a nice house, and a newer car. I think DW should make a video on the struggle of the middle class of other countries. With my income I'm considered middle class, in my Country, and I don't have such a nice house, and I drive a 22 year old Toyota. It's all perspective. It's hard to tell someone who has worked hard for there life style they have to change for the better of all.
I was thinking the same, they look very well fed, well dressed, nice house, nice car, they have a vacation budget... All through the magic of colonialism I guess, and not just historical but current, too
Yet another great DW documentary!
that guy on the plane is wild
Which Engine type does your Bugatti have?
We need more docus like this! Very educational
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I used to hate private jet flier myself until I learned that transportation including all plane, car and train travel is only 2% of the carbon emissions every year worldwide. We have to change our power stations. That is responsible for 85% of carbon.
And yet we have people blocking our roads instead of blocking tarmacs
Rich or poor, we shall all end up in a box, in the ground, so to speak.
Stop War business, which require millons of tons of fossil fuel to opetate fighter jets, aircraft carriers, war ships armoured vehicles etc.
It would be welcoming to help to visualize what 3t per person per year would look like. It’s an interesting proposal. The more specific we are about it the better allowance I see from all.
Even the whole new video with different social groups examples might help to make the change real.
Thank you for great content!
P.S. I hope that Stephan Gerhardt (the man at yacht in tourism business) has already his climate consultant.
it is 3 cubic meters of water. So that's a lot.
@@felixbors7546 I think they meant visualize what life would look like at a 3t allowance. Spoiler alert: not great.
The rich 2% of population produce 2300T of carbon each year.
The remaining 98% of population produce how many carbon each year??? (oh they purposely hid that number).
Hypothetically, we put a law that all rich people can only consume x amount (the same consumption like everyone else).
For simplicity, everybody (rich or poor) total global can only consume 100T of carbon per year.
The rich 2% of population produce 2T of carbon.
The remaining 98% of the population produce 98T of carbon.
It's always been a taboo subject... Over population.
The numbers don't lie; cut down the population and you cut down the emission (and all other problems).
@@A.I.- At the same time we need more people to pay for the rapidly growing amount of eldery. It is like a stuck in the middle scenario.
This documentary goes to uncharted territories and thank you for that.
Putting a price on emissions doesn't solve the problem; it only capitalizes on it as a profit-making opportunity.
Hypocrites that what they are
Excellent video. The problems created by the "HAVE" is always push under the carpet not to be seeing. People how have the money to spend will find ways to spend it regardless the result of their action, and of course, they will find a good reason to do so.
Is socialism rising in Germany and DW? 😂😘
It's an important documentary 👌 & truthful coverage of that matter that touches the lives of everyone on the planet its decisive linkage to climate changes and climate crisis...allot thanks DW documentary channel....DW documentary channel always introduces remarkable, magnificence documentaries
I calculated about 5 tons per year for myself, and a huge amount (95%) of that is via my car. I live in a small condo with hydroelectric power.
However my car is 15 years old, so my question is at this point in its lifecycle is it not better for the environment to continue to use it vs buying a new vehicle that would have its only carbon footprint in regards to production, whether its an efficient ICE or EV?
Is that documentary also Available In german?
When I was young we had a jet and my brothers and I called it "The Coffin."
My mother asked, "Why do you children call it the coffin?"
We replied .... Because you can't stand up in either one.
We got a Gulfstream.
This indeed is so courageous, I admire the DW for this documentary. There have been many reports and carbon inequality database but saying it upfront and clearly, visually more important, is very important. In my research and teaching, these aspects feature prominently, I feel university students must be sensitised at all levels. But it remains an open secret which no one wants to bring to fore. It is pathetic, the level of hypocrisy and apathy. And the arrogance of the rich.
If everyone in the world lived like westerners we'd be a dessert by now... So are you a bad person for not living like someone in Botswana?
@@Googlium that’s the dumbest argument I’ve seen here. Nothing in the comment denied that we in the western / first/second world countries pollute the world too much on average. That’s true. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not allowed to criticize people who are polluting multiple times more than you although you are already polluting too much. The general infrastructure in our countries makes it basically impossible to get an sustainable carbon footprint if you don’t live in the woods without power and all this stuff. But you are still allowed to raise awareness and ask for change.
Is there a german version of the documentary too?
Germany is going crazy over CO2 emmisions
Solution: exponentially tax the rich.
@christgriffin : OP is correct. From WW2 through the 1970's we had the strongest economy and largest middle class the world had ever seen. Then in 1981 the reagan administration set out to destroy our economy, our public school system that was #1 and now isn't even in the top 20. Only BS tricklesdown..
1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
@christ griffin Look, this is probably not aimed at you, unless you make more than 500 thousand dollars a year.
Great content. Hope that guy's chauffeur arrived on time.
Maybe they edited out the conversation, " Please send a car to where my chauffeur is waiting, and remind him in person, to come to pick me up from Frankfurt on time. And escort him to my revised destination."
"Already done."
this guy drinking his Fiji water and trying to defend himself is pretty hillarious
What's the problem with drinking water? Lol.
Is this available in german audio somewhere?
Ansonsten in der ARD Mediathek und da "das Klima und die Reichen" suchen
A lot of the rich are the biggest consumers, especially of electricity, which ends of driving the average price higher for the normie person out there.
Eat the Rich
WEF came together with 1200 private jets in a time of video calls?! To tell US we should drive around as much.
The man on the plane is unbelivably ignorant.
Thank you so much for sharing this documentary! The extremely strange thing is that the people who go to the WEF are well known for flying in on their private jets. Yet they are the very ones that complain about climate change! They want everyone else to change their way of life yet they seem to think that they are exempt. Just like Africa. They don’t want them to have the same advantages that the western world has such as clean water electricity and heat and a/c but I’d bet they’d never consider giving up theirs. Such a strange world we are living in.
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and what difference is it gonna make if they fly public? dw should interview the polluters of the climate. cherry picking on random rich folks doesn't convince those who know the truth.
We should build those old French contraptions for these people again
A friend of mine sells low wattage LED lighting for industrial applications. . His company will pay for the entire process of swapping out whatever lighting products are in place with a LED product of the same performance. No cost to the business owner at all. His company gets paid a percentage of the energy savings from their monthly power bill. Or, if the customer chooses to pay for the products installed, they keep all their monthly savings. For an example, an average Wal-Mart store spends $30,000 each month just for lighting the store. LED lighting in the same store reduces energy costs to $6,000. LED lighting products have a useful life that averages 5 times longer than other types. It also saves on routine maintenance. That's almost a $300,000 yearly savings.
I figured he was killing it with a deal like that! The fact is, he is lucky if he sells 5% of the customers he pitches to. I couldn't believe what he was saying.
Rather than target the individuals I think you should focus on corporations, I am a car lover but I also manage a bamboo farm to offset my carbon emissions.
May you kindly do a documentary on WEF, WHO and all these organizations we the ordinary citizens did not vote for but are dictating our lives as if our bodies belong to them. I recommend your documentaries to my colleagues and they enjoy how you present issues that affect us.
Huh? The WEF nor the WHO are governments, sir. They are just non-profit organization.
That is a biased proposal, based on the (wrong) assumption that those institutions exert their power over "your body", and that they lack the authority because "ordinary citizens didn't vote" the names of ruling bodies.
You also didn't vote for the Chair of your country's central bank, and still, it regulates what you can and can't do with your money (and other stuff), you didn't elect. Why? Because they are not holding positions in political organizations but in regulatory organizations/specialized agencies. They are not conducted to carry on political agendas but public policies, with clear, objective, and technical objectives.
What could be interesting, from a journalistic point of view, would be to assess how "ordinary citizens" from different political, economic, and age demographics, look at the role of regulating democracy, compliance with regulations, democratic participation, individual liberty/rights vs common good. That would be neat.
This is my exact argument. Everyone wants to say they care about the climate but they're unwilling to do anything about it, which means they are lying the way I see it. I drive a Honda Civic and really really want to buy a nicer car. However, when I consider it and realize a Mercedes car only gets 19MPG I feel an enormous amount or responsibility to not do that. The same thing with housing. I drive around the US and realize there's 3,500 square feet per family of 4- which is completely impractical. But everyone wants to act like they care. I think we need to continue educating people to make better decisions, including more factors like climate change, in every small decision throughout the day. And then we would see big changes quickly. But the tradeoffs will be drastic in extravagant lifestyle.
And plastic straws. Plastic straws must be demanded back into people's everyday life. It is degrading when we have to use cardboard straws for drinking. Tyrants took them from us but together we will bring them back.
Why not get an EQS, the electric one
Why not get an EQS, the electric one
prove humans influence climate change
As a student in geography and working on research pertaining to climate change, these documentaries are quite hilarious to me. I get it, these rich people indulge in activities that have a larger carbon footprint than an average joe but their lifestyle is a mere drop in the bucket. Our real issues arise from the general use and production of fossil fuels and our dependency on livestock to feed ourselves and there isn't much we can do about it, the near future is completely bleak and governments are not willing to take action right now, even if these guys completely stopped their luxurious activities, we still wouldn't make any sort of impact in the fight against climate change.
These documentaries do nothing but direct attention to something that will not help us in the fight against climate change regardless of how much we demonize these rich people, they are pretty big assholes but unfortunately they are not enough to fight against climate change. The real targets of documentaries should be politicians in the pockets of oil companies that refuse to make changes and stop policies that will actually help make an impact.
Many celebrities and rich people talk about climate change and tell people to have save life such as bike,bus train etc but they are living in big house with a pool,travel with the jet etc. so sick of these people
I think it's a great idea putting a price on emissions.
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