this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 28 points 21 hours ago

Luigi has done his part. Let's hope the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom are ready and armed.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 22 hours ago

The operative word in this headline is "fair". The ultrarich use their share of everything for a few days - or hours, or minutes - then switch to using everybody else's the rest of the year.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 15 hours ago

they don't know what fair share even means

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 19 points 21 hours ago

I get the impression billionaires are a big reason we aren't addressing climate change. Sad that the Children of Kali are our best hope.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What, the richest 1% only use 36.5x more carbon than average? I would have expected more. But I guess top 1% globally isn't too rare in the US, about a net worth of $870k. That puts about 20% of Americans in the top 1%.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

That's a great point. The 1% vs 99% discourse was introduced during the great recession, and while it's a nice quick shorthand, the literal figure of 1% really does spread out the blame more than it should. It's actually a much smaller percentage of people who are sucking up so many resources and who are the biggest cause of misery on Earth. That just makes the fact that we're forced to cater to them even more striking.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

Carbon credits are horseshit.