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2 months ago
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323 points
2 months ago
All that for some salt. (I think it was salt.)
71 points
2 months ago
Grey Poupon mustard
43 points
2 months ago
You're the only comment I've seen that knows where this is from, you a real one
4 points
2 months ago
Well don't exclude all of us! What is it from?
13 points
2 months ago
The amazing world of gumball, specifically an episode called "The Menu"
10 points
2 months ago
Are you supposed to eat salt through the nose?
11 points
2 months ago
Yesterday a coworker shared a TikTok with a scene from the episode where everyone at Nicole's work fails to use computers. Today there's this. God, I love this show.
259 points
2 months ago
When somwthing is my benefit - WE need to
If something is not in my benefit - YOU need to
38 points
2 months ago
This reminds me few days ago Biden driving out to my city to speak about climate change , while coming in his caravan of like 60+ cop and presidential vehicles… like I get it , president supposed to be safe. But I just find it pretty funny and dumb
22 points
2 months ago
It was about 75 vehicles, I think. I know presidents need some security, but that seems excessive. Especially considering the last time Canada had a violent protest it was truckers honking their horns loudly
11 points
2 months ago
'Muricans tend to be a little more shooty at our leaders than Canadians do.
107 points
2 months ago
This is so fake, you can tell by how they are walking to the helicopter and not taking a Hummer stretch limo.
40 points
2 months ago
It's a clip from a kids cartoon called The Amazing World of Gumball.
16 points
2 months ago
Thanks, I was wondering why it looked familiar lol. Do you know which episode?
10 points
2 months ago
The Menu, season 5
5 points
2 months ago
Based.
4 points
2 months ago
Also fake because the copter waited at it's destination instead of deadheading back to it's base so they can maximize their tax advantages.
911 points
2 months ago
Remember like 10 years ago when a bunch of celebrities were talking about wanting completely open borders and people were like...hey, don't you literally live in a gated community with security? Celebrities live by the same motto our politicians do. Rules for thee but not for me.
58 points
2 months ago*
100%
Same reason why the horrific increase in public drug overdoses (more people die from opioids in most places than covid, and it's young people dying which is significantly worse for the long term prospects of a society), public drug usage is sky high, downtown businesses are being looted and vandalized and workers there are being harassed non stop in Vancouver, San Fransisco, LA.
The elite, politicians, activists, and judges don't care. They don't live there. Doesn't affect them. So they can keep being woke and make sweet sound bites about compassion, taking more in taxes, while the lower class suffers the consequences.
20 points
2 months ago
You know how Ukraine drops grenades from drones? Maybe we can start doing this with diarrhea in a bag.
7 points
2 months ago
Reminds me of this tweet
4 points
2 months ago
Source?
8 points
2 months ago
No, can you link to it?
2 points
2 months ago
Careful. If you ask for proof on this thread you get downvoted to shit and just get told "Google it."
-1 points
2 months ago
It's not true. It's one of the many false narratives conservatives love to spread;
2 points
2 months ago
Hmm, I wonder what else u/GuiltyGlow is lying about. Maybe he’s not even really a veteran?
4 points
2 months ago
That’s a disingenuous argument, though.. more fun for a meme but not real life.
I’d like a safe place for drug addicts to both use and exchange needles, that doesn’t mean I want them using my bathroom. That also doesn’t make me a hypocrite whatsoever.
I want the government to provide services that I shouldn’t need to as an individual. I’m happy to contribute, tax wise, but that’s obviously very different.
11 points
2 months ago
Remember like 10 years ago when a bunch of celebrities were talking about wanting completely open borders
No, what in Fuck are you talking about?
19 points
2 months ago
Then you have shoet memory. It happened during the outrage of 'putting kids in cages' at the border.
8 points
2 months ago
Refresh my memory. Who specifically was talking about open borders?
11 points
2 months ago
Im not going to give you a complete list, because i aint got time for that. But here are 3 names. This is all the research im going to do for you.
Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and Sylvester Stallone
6 points
2 months ago
This?
Which can’t be what the person above is talking about, right? It was almost exactly a year ago rather than a decade.
2 points
2 months ago
It was almost exactly a year ago rather than a decade.
If you cant remember a year ago, your memory really is shit.
2 points
2 months ago*
I googled all of them and I couldn't find anything.
Can you give me some actual details on when/why they actually said that? I've literally never heard of what you're talking about. One source each will be good. Thank you.
6 points
2 months ago
I was able to find it.
6 points
2 months ago
I googled all of them and I couldn't find anything.
Then youre pretty bad at googling it. Cause other people did find it.
1 points
2 months ago
Some people are just ass at providing evidence to stuff. Their first response is always, "Google it."
That ain't on me, bro. That's on you.
1 points
2 months ago
Bullshit tactic is: I don't have time to source my lie.
4 points
2 months ago
I literally did elsewhere when requested. Go find my other comment. Fuck you.
1 points
2 months ago
That’s different than the three people demanding oPeN bOrDErs on twitter. “Open borders” is a right wing straw man designed to scare people into draconian, inhuman immigration policies. It shifts the argument solely to the border instead of looking at the problem holistically. It’s just a bunch of bullshit. Our immigration system is designed to bog people down unless you’re some rich bitch with connections.
1 points
2 months ago
Our immigration system is designed to bog people
Good. Our immigration system takes more people in a year than any other in history.
If we let in anyone who wants to come in, we would have a literal billion people and that which makes amweica so desireable, would go away(oppertunity).
Mass immigration is only beneficial to corperations. You are litrtally playing into their hands by wanting more people to come into rhe country.
More workers = lower wages. And heres how.
More foriegners = more cultures
More cultures = less unity
Less unity = leas union trusts
Less union trust = corperations get more power.
-2 points
2 months ago
Hard to remember things which don’t exist,’like celebrities calling something extremely vague that they made up
5 points
2 months ago
Just made up bullshit
5 points
2 months ago
Remember like 10 years ago when a bunch of celebrities were talking about wanting completely open borders
No
0 points
2 months ago
Pretty much the same as republicans who decry gun laws and gun free zones yet don’t allow weapons into nra events or political events/rallies
-1 points
2 months ago
No. Which ones?
130 points
2 months ago
"The water levels will rise" -millionaire who just bought beachfront property.
13 points
2 months ago
And insured it for twice it's actual value.. you know, the art of the deal..
2 points
2 months ago
nah they're just gonna sell it to Aquaman
40 points
2 months ago
The fact that this is from The Amazing World of Gumball is hilarious.
12 points
2 months ago
I knew this looked familiar
1.6k points
2 months ago
Well you know, if there wasn't such a massive tax break for using your private jet or helicopter, I don't think they'd be inclined to use it for stupid trips like this.
You can hate their hypocrisy, but that doesn't change anything when it comes to fighting climate change.
471 points
2 months ago*
What exactly can we do besides pray to God that the middle class decides to crowdfund against the elite?
12 points
2 months ago
Of course, just hope the rapidly shrinking middle class will come save all the people at the bottom with their magic "crowdfunding" that somehow gives them enough money to go up against the megacorps at lobbying, I'm sure they will be able to convince the politicians who actually make the decisions to act in public interest, against the wishes of their other, ominously large donors, I'm sure the middle classes "crowdfunding" will convince those politicians to completely reorganize our economy from the bottom up so the rest of us don't die in climate disasters, absolutely, you and I won't need to lift a finger, just sit back, somebody else will always save you, after all. /S
392 points
2 months ago
The American middle class won't be a thing in a few more years. We were hanging on by a thread a few years back and now with inflation, and the housing/rent crisis, we're looking at 5 years tops.
The US has proven that late stage capitalism is just serfdom. We're the working class who are in debt to the owner class.
There is really only one way to fix this problem, and it's starting in France again.
34 points
2 months ago
The new class system: owning class and working class
29 points
2 months ago
What is old is new again
12 points
2 months ago
Just wait, feudalism will return shortly thereafter.
20 points
2 months ago
until ai/robotics become sufficiently advanced, then its just owning class and everyone else can go die because society is no longer required to sustain their lifestyle or fight their wars
2 points
2 months ago
The new class system: warrior, mage, thief, etc
24 points
2 months ago
Starting in France again, for the nth time in the last decade. Protest is one of their most popular outdoor sports
17 points
2 months ago
There is only one way to fix this problem,
Incredibly based. Since it will be Boogaloo times, I can finally get some use out of my nice AR and fancy gear like my $9K night vision goggles. BRB, going to raid my neighbors and set up ambushes for cops.
for legal reasons, that was a joke
7 points
2 months ago
Can't wait to try out my new AR and night vision goggles, I hope you don't break em when your dumbass tries to raid my place and steps in my bear traps. Gonna really have fun snuffing all you boogs if shtf.
6 points
2 months ago
I mean the whole point of nods is to be able to see at night. If someone who is out to do you harm noticed that you put traps up, it’s probably too much of a bother to directly attack a defensive location.
As Fallujah have taught us, CQB is only cool in video games and blowing through walls against half-asleep farmers in huts; but will totally get you killed against an entrenched enemy. Better off just to frag the building and everyone inside.
So in your case, it would be to just take you out if you ever go outside or a few flaming jars of styrofoam and gasoline mix through the window when you are asleep Waco style.
Hypothetically of course.
0 points
2 months ago
Okay ,kid. I'm sure you are gonna get far assuming so much from my simple shit talk about you raising your neighbors. You are def elite COD meal team 6 material. 👍
3 points
2 months ago*
This is the big reset/boogaloo we are talking about. Its just a meme, unless you forgot what subreddit you are on. No need to kill the vibe.
It’s the same concept as the folks on the Left saying that they want to eat the rich, which is just them saying they are going to make people face the wall when they get into power. Or the libertarians giving helicopter rides.
But if you want to be real, then by all means, go set up your traps and hide out till the storm blows over.
Edit: the guy below blocked me. He’s acting like during the Boog isn’t going to turn into a big game of Tarkov and people aren’t going to just KOS. You acting like any of us are going to last long during the Boog. Most of us are not going to make it if the fabric of society breaks down. You can try to LARP as the main character of Fallout game doing a Good Karma run all you want, its just easier to become a warlord in own swathe of land that you can secure. Might as well live out the meager existence that we have left during the chaos in luxury in a dog-eat-dog reality. Just look at how people reacted during the Covid lockdowns and the exclusion zone during Settle protests in 2020 and other riot zones to see what a temporary lost of government control led to.
7 points
2 months ago
One way out.
141 points
2 months ago*
You know what JFK said... when peaceful protest is suppressed, violent revolution is inevitable.
edit: JFK, not MLK
209 points
2 months ago
That was a JFK quote you blackwasher.
85 points
2 months ago
Fuck me. I thought it was LeBron James.
47 points
2 months ago
17 points
2 months ago
It was the late great MGK that once said:
"If at first you don't succeed, try a different genre"
It's time to change our tune 🏴☠️
12 points
2 months ago
"My hero Eminem destroyed me because I came at him for clout, so now I do pop-punk instead of rap"
7 points
2 months ago
"...now I do godawful pop punk instead..."
FTFY
5 points
2 months ago
As general Sun Tzu famously wrote
"Act like a bitch, get clapped like a bitch"
2 points
2 months ago
Thanks bro 💪 corrected. I misremembered MLK quoting it as him stating it.
46 points
2 months ago
MLK: launches Poor People’s Campaign to advocate for living wages and worker protections
FBI: I DIAGNOSE YOU WITH DEATH! Oh, I mean some random redneck tragically killed that saintly priest 🥲
7 points
2 months ago
If we keep them silent, they'll resort to violence, and that's how we crrriminalize change
5 points
2 months ago
You're right, we should start beheading rich people.
Wait, what the fuck is this "protesting" I keep hearing about?
4 points
2 months ago
Europe does capitalism pretty well, maybe it's late stage Americanism
3 points
2 months ago
I find it interesting that if what people are doing in France is done in US it is listed as treason and an attack on democracy, while there is no democracy rather communism. The rich control the government and own everything, so the government owns everything.
5 points
2 months ago
An attempted coup for a president is treason.
A protest against said president is not.
8 points
2 months ago
Don’t pray to god, help organize.
12 points
2 months ago
Buy ammunition
11 points
2 months ago
Learn to shoot, find your local billionaires favorite hangout spot
3 points
2 months ago
You first
2 points
2 months ago
Turn Congress into a body that works for you, not the wealthy https://youtu.be/OWxc_kYmPTE
38 points
2 months ago
That tax break isn't for people who own private jets or helicopters. It's a tax break on specific services related to companies that manage helicopters in private use.
It was intended so that helicopter fleet companies weren't paying the same taxes as commercial flights. They're different industries, so they shouldn't be using the same tax scheme.
That "tax break" offered no tax breaks whatsoever to the people who own or operate the helicopters - just the companies providing management services like staffing, fueling, repairs etc. You can see this yourself if you click the link, and then click their source. I don't blame you, though, because your link also got their source wrong.
51 points
2 months ago
Oh. It's the tax breaks that are totally to blame. 🙄
20 points
2 months ago
Yes, actually. Blaming individual behavior accomplishes absolutely nothing. Companies that stand to lose money know this, and do their best to push the responsibility onto the individual, because they know that doesn't accomplish jack shit. The only way to solve this problem is through legislation.
5 points
2 months ago
Legislation seems difficult when this could easily be a picture of Al Gore’s house, one of the biggest “environmentalist” politicians of all time.
3 points
2 months ago
Do you seriously think politicians look to solve problems?
6 points
2 months ago
Do you serious think billionaires give a shit about what people say about their private jets on social media? And even if they did, that's a tiny fraction of global carbon emissions so the impact is absolutely not proportionate to the amount of attention it gets on social medial compared to everything the oil industry does. It's like plastic straws - it's a distraction from the real issue.
2 points
2 months ago
Do you serious think billionaires give a shit about what people say about their private jets on social media?
Where did I ever come close to making such a statement?
compared to everything the oil industry does.
The oil industry is fulfilling a demand. If cars, manufacturing, plastics, etc were not there to generate demand, there wouldn't be anyone giving money to the oil industry.
4 points
2 months ago
...what exactly are you saying the solution here is, then?
-1 points
2 months ago
Pshaw! Beat me with a stick if I know what the solution is. I'm not proposing solutions, only making observations; but I'm a long time advocate of the idea solutions must be based on unflinching, candid observations.
The way I see it, we can do nothing and hope the predictions are wrong or our technology will mature enough to inadvertently avert disaster or...
...disaster will befall us and billions will die, or
...we can rapidly de-industrialize the world and billions will die.
It's like a game of Russian roulette with 5 of the 6 chambers loaded. 🤔
4 points
2 months ago
I reject the idea that there's nothing that can be done through legislation. Several US states have some sort of carbon pricing policy in place, we have renewable energy incentives at the federal level, and US carbon emissions are down ~15% (~25% per capita) from 20 years ago (although admittedly some of that is from us running out of coal). We can't stop what's coming, but we can absolutely reduce the damage.
2 points
2 months ago
And then came The Willow Project.
Not to mention the fact China is building coal plants faster than the rest of the world combined can tear them down.
2 points
2 months ago
Pshaw! Beat me with a stick if I know what the solution is. I'm not proposing solutions, only making observations;
You're defending the financial incentive that promotes use of private jets.. but you can't elaborate on that
1 points
2 months ago
Well, I certainly don't expect the politicians who are millionaires with their own private jets to do anything to end their own write offs.
52 points
2 months ago
They encourage the behavior so they aren't without fault
-16 points
2 months ago
Yes, it's totally not the fact that the average stupid consumer makes retarded financial decisions.
The government caused stagflation by spending stupid amounts of money on vague plans. The government caused the majority of the financial crashes by demanding equity in the banking sector for social justice brownie points and then bailing out the banks when they're bailed out with our tax money. The government is the cause, and yet the stupid consumer wants the government to solve everything for them because that's the intent of the government; to make themselves the monopoly over everything. They are brainwashed into thinking corporations are bad and the government is this caped crusader here to save the day, when in reality they are both bad.
Say what you want about late stage capitalism, but we can only reach late stage capitalism when the government inserts themselves into the equation; before that the banks that suck fail as do every bad company. The government wants corporations in their pocket, and our money out of ours and into theirs.
The government is the nation's biggest corporation, selling you useless services that just take away your freedoms and human rights while simultaneously extracting our hard earned wealth. Yet we are the primary shareholders, and we need to remind the government of that. If that involves setting up a few gallows then so be it. Guns, Small government and financial literacy is paramount for a truly free society.
3 points
2 months ago
Do you get the lobotomy as soon as you become a conservative/libertarian or does it come later?
-1 points
2 months ago
You make valid points, but you seem to ignore that the majority don't get a choice of their finances even if they have a degree in accounting. Jobs do not match inflation prices of today.
When you do make "enough" money you lose all your previous benefits, oh and now your in the next tax bracket so you actually take less money home now. Its a rig system that has finally come to fruition, setup by the rich and powerful to keep us as serfs.
3 points
2 months ago
While I agree with the article that they need to charge private jets more taxes to pay their fair share, I wouldn't consider this a "massive tax break" that significantly affects behavior of private jet flyers. It's still super expensive to fly private, these people are just rich enough to do it anyway. To actually discourage private jet use, you'd have to charge well above their fare share of ATC resource usage (which I'm in favor of).
0 points
2 months ago
You kidding me right, this is real?
1 points
2 months ago
A la the GOP.
80 points
2 months ago
Bill Gates: “give up all enjoyable food in the name of ethics right now!”
Bill Gates: “I sure do love hamburgers! What, you thought I was gonna eat that shit?”
45 points
2 months ago
His foundation fought to protect COVID vaccine IP that some countries were trying to copy to save their citizens, he's a monster.
3 points
2 months ago
Personally just gotta shout out that vegan foods are enjoyable.
-1 points
2 months ago
Bill gates can shove a stick up his ass but don’t let that be your excuse for not doing a goddamn thing
172 points
2 months ago
The entire individual action angle of climate change activism was literally pushed by the same people who tried to hide climate change. It’s just the next phase of obstructionism. Only legislation can solve this problem, the best any individual can do is buy us all about 0.0001 seconds of extra time.
56 points
2 months ago
No, obviously the solution is to cut 90 percent of foods and also start intermittent fasting. I know these were called “warning signs of anorexia” or “wartime rations” when you were a kid but I promise it’s really nice and ethical!!
30 points
2 months ago
If everyone drank only water and meal replacement shakes we could squeeze another 50 years of oil production into our time line smh people are so selfish
8 points
2 months ago
You better not even THINK about drinking juice, that contains sugar and I signed a contract for you saying to only eat the healthiest possible option
2 points
2 months ago
You know much water it takes to raise livestock and crops?? All that could be used for fracking and mining we need to get our shit together as a society
3 points
2 months ago
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8 points
2 months ago
Start sinking cruise ships
3 points
2 months ago
Hey, most of those people are like a year away from dying from either old age, melanoma, or alcoholism
6 points
2 months ago
"Good news! Rich people all stopped using private transportation! We did it!"
"Yes! Now the planet is going to be ok, right! We fixed climate change?"
"We slowed it down by a month!"
5 points
2 months ago
Maybe the worst polluting industries are pulling another "recycle" or "do your part" by pushing the blame on celebrities now which are a drop in the lake that is their polluting
9 points
2 months ago
My personal conspiracy theory is that the whole "celebrities have a big carbon footprint" angle is being pushed by the oil industry as a distraction tactic to avoid something like a carbon tax that would actually make a difference.
8 points
2 months ago
Its less of a conspiracy theory and more of a right wing media tactic (which industries promote) to distract from real issues that some people fall for.
10 points
2 months ago
Well it works. If someone tells me 'dont pee in the ocean it will kill us all' then turns around and takes a shit in the pool.
Im thinking the guy is an idiot.
When a politician says 'oceans will rise due to global warming so give me money/power to stop it' then buys beachfront property. I think they might be bullshiting me.
4 points
2 months ago
Individual action is important because it definitely adds up. But it shouldn't be delivered by a bunch of hypocrites who think their actions are too important for consideration.
8 points
2 months ago
On a large scale individual decisions all average out. It’s the law of large numbers. And even if that weren’t the case, the best we could hope for with individual action is just buying a bit more time. What we need is a real solution, which would involve dragging the billionaires responsible for destroying our planet for profit to the biggest reckoning since Nuremberg. But the longer we blame ourselves for this and focus on solutions that don’t work, the longer they can get away with it.
11 points
2 months ago
This reminds me of TF2
13 points
2 months ago
It's actually the Amazing World of Gumball notice the animation and art style.
10 points
2 months ago
Gumball moment
8 points
2 months ago
TFW when you realize Kobe died trying to skip traffic :z
12 points
2 months ago
Average Kardashian-Jenner family mfer
6 points
2 months ago
True Gumball moment
11 points
2 months ago
I love how the Obama's preach about the general population to fight climate change yet they're building a massive house right on the water in Hawaii lol, if the sea levels are rising due to climate change..... not a good spot to build a new house huh.
4 points
2 months ago
I feel like the people pointing out what the celebs are doing are paid by companies with massive carbon footprints, not that I’m defending the celebs.
Come to think of it, isn’t the term carbon footprint technically a PR phrase coined to put the blame on individuals instead of companies?
6 points
2 months ago
They want us to eat crickets while they eat $500 tuna sushi.
They want us to cram into crime ridden cities while they live in mansions in gated communities.
They want to ban our gas stoves while they burn $1,000 a week heating their pools.
They want to ban oil exploration so we pay $20 a gallon while they fly private
3 points
2 months ago
Rules for thee but not for me
11 points
2 months ago
No no, you see they donated a lot of money to some dem politicians so they're allowed to do whatever they want.
9 points
2 months ago
Accurate. I’m sick of hearing rich white people blab in all these documentaries about how they’re saving the world when really they’re getting paid money to say the shit and feel like a “rich hippie”.
3 points
2 months ago
Lol Taylor swift is playing rn
3 points
2 months ago
You can't save a planet if you don't have something to save it from
20 points
2 months ago
They also don't address how China leads the world in pollution by a WIDE margin.
59 points
2 months ago
Because everything is made there instead of locally. In the United States you can pick up some random thing and it'll have "Made in China" plastered on it. They pollute the most cause they make everything for us.
24 points
2 months ago
Correct. This is like blaming an airline for all the pollution they put out.
They pollute based on demand for airline trips.
They’d pollute nothing if people didn’t fly places.
We need to legislatively effect the things that cause pollution, when efficient public transportation is available, no one uses it.
When green options are available, they tend to be ignored. And no one wants legislation to tell them they cannot fly, or that specific cars can’t be driven anymore.
11 points
2 months ago
Funniest is a suburbanite 2 SUV 3 vacations per year type complaining about oil companies
Like lmfao, they make oil because you demand it, they're not producing oil for fun, ignorant idiot.
2 points
2 months ago*
So true. To try and put it in real terms from one of your examples; making efficient public transportation will only see good use when we also simultaneously attack the alternatives -- dismantle roads, penalize car ownership or even air travel, congestion charges etc. Otherwise it just frees up the roads, for example, for a richer class of people to fill up with their gas guzzlers, crowding out the advantage of the cheap busses (used by the poors) that you had just introduced -- induced demand.
As for flying, I don't understand what people are thinking... That we'll miraculously fuel our jets enmass with perfectly green hydrogen or whatever within just 30 years so the supposedly non-rich "average person" can continue to jet around at subsonic speeds for non-essentials like vacations? No, we won't. We'll be doing so at cost to the truly unfortunate and justifying it to ourselves by pointing to how little our individual impact represents, "relatively" speaking
I feel very unsure about such posts and the resulting discussions because they're largely focused on promoting a type of bystander effect and the shifting away of all blame from ourselves. We're our Taylor Swifts and Elon Musks to the global poor by comparison. Yes, the rich are the larger per-capita emitters and beneficiaries but we're still undeniably part of the problem.
12 points
2 months ago
Their pollution per capita isn't even that high https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
2 points
2 months ago
This argument never checked out for me. Why do you think everyone produces in China? What do you think would happen if China introduced actual employee- and environment protection laws?
2 points
2 months ago
They also dump their garbage directly into rivers. Holy fuck liberals will bend over backwards to protect China from any blame when in reality THEY ARE DUMPING GARBAGE DIRECTLY INTO RIVERS. They are doing it on fucking purpose and it not your fault because you some shot off Amazon.
2 points
2 months ago
I'm not saying China is innocent. I'm saying that there is a reason for some of the pollution. Obviously China dumping garbage into rivers is really bad.
3 points
2 months ago
Has nothing to do with the fact that China has a huge population and products all of our shit. On a per capita basis, they’re less than half (source: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/ )
Besides. Half of that shit is because we export all of our manufacturing to China.
8 points
2 months ago
For future reference, to avoid appearing ignorant, you should be aware that America's per capita consumption of fossil fuels is far higher than China's.
Remember, there are also like 5 times the people and 10x the manufacturing as well.
8 points
2 months ago
Annual CO2 emmisions per capita of
The USA: 15t
China: 8t
The EU: 6t
The World: 5t
I'll correct the numbers if I notice an error
4 points
2 months ago
You fail to mention less than half of China's population is responsible for nearly all pollution.
3 points
2 months ago
Can you give me a source on that? I cant really find anything to back it up
2 points
2 months ago
The vocabulary term of the day is: per-capita
1 points
2 months ago
At least 25%
Pathetic to see my country's leaders (Canada) going so hard against climate change in our own country, wasting more money while our population becomes more homeless.
Instead they could be going after China to get them to be accountable.
2 points
2 months ago
Too busy getting bought out by China.
2 points
2 months ago
And getting all our illegal fentanyl from them
5 points
2 months ago
Is that Kobe?
3 points
2 months ago
No because it didnt crash
2 points
2 months ago
Ed Begley, Jr. took the subway to the Oscars.
2 points
2 months ago
RIP Kobe
2 points
2 months ago
Reminder that the idea of a personal carbon footprint was invented by petroleum companies to offload their guilt onto individuals.
2 points
2 months ago
People just chug down stuff celebrities say like there's no chance that it's 100% bullshit.
Breaking news: there is indeed such a chance. And most celebrities will make an actual job out of hypocritical virtue signalling. Hey, what am I saying, it IS a job. It's called "social media manager". The absence of which will create absolute memes when celebs are left taking their own stupid decisions, like Madonna preaching about poverty from a jacuzi in her millionaire home, or that other idiot complaining she couldn't get out because of covid but "people always die, so...".
Yeah, most of the teary, pathetic messages from celebrities are just hypocritical bullshit their managers told them to say since it's the hot topic. There are indeed celebrities that make actual advocacy and charity, but it's one in a million and you will most likely not read it on every social media and newspaper since they don't do it for attention.
2 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
BUT, GUYS, WE ONLY HAVE, LIKE, 4 YEARS LEFT ON THE PLANET, LIKE, AOC, LIKE TOLD ME , LIKE, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE, LIKE, GRETA KNOWS BEST, LIKE.
2 points
2 months ago
They just buy carbon offsets and say “look at me!”
2 points
2 months ago
Remember when the covid shutdown happened and a bunch of celebrities who were quarantined in their mansions sang John Lennon's "Imagine" over zoom to show solidarity with all the working class folks who were quarantined and out of work and everyone collectively told them to go fuck themselves? Good times
4 points
2 months ago
Scientists - keep your carbon footprint down
selfish people - but that person isn't so I won't.
2 points
2 months ago
Regular people: “We need to address climate change, which alongside reducing our own footprint involves pressuring our government to force corporations and the rich to reduce theirs”
Dankmemes: “well rich people pollute so I’m not gonna”
Why is this fallacy popping up over and over on here these days?
2 points
2 months ago
That's why if I was a rich celebrity I would just straight up say I don't care about the environment. I mean what's even the point of becoming rich and famous.
1 points
2 months ago
You don't get it. We the normal working class need to sacrifice everything not those rich people and elite! /s
1 points
2 months ago
i like to think of myself a big blue cube as well
1 points
2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
All rich people commute like this, not just celebrities.
1 points
2 months ago
Or when politicians all take their individual private jets to come together to talk about how to stop climate change. If every single "normal" person on earth did everything they did to stop emmisions, the difference would barely be felt. Massive corporations are the real enemy here.
1 points
2 months ago
I really hate being a doomer but how the fuck am I as an individual supposed to do anything about climate change when rich assholes and corporations are putting out the majority of emissions? The rich just keep telling us we need to cycle to work or eat less meat or have shorter showers but they're the ones putting out most of the emissions.
I could live in the woods carving spoons and only eating berries and nuts and it would still barely put a dent into the world's emissions.
-9 points
2 months ago
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10 points
2 months ago
Huh? The earth may tough it out, but the idea is that we’re still there too. Also, we’re making other animals extinct, which kinda sucks
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I know this planet will not be destroyed, but human society is on track for destruction. "Destroying the planet" is shorthand.
2 points
2 months ago
This doesn't sound good either. What do you think we should do?
2 points
2 months ago
Stop changing the atmosphere and by extension the biosphere, because we are not equipped to deal with those huge changes.
4 points
2 months ago
Uh, are you serious? Do you realize the damage you are talking about?
-1 points
2 months ago
Why don't we just turn off all the coal plants like right now?
11 points
2 months ago
Because a lot of people will die?
0 points
2 months ago
How about we at least make shutting down all the coal plants and fossil fuel extraction a pressing global-emergency-level priority right now so they're shut down ASAP? You know, instead of waiting on magical win-win solutions to make it somehow utterly unprofitable such that we will voluntarily abandon the massive benefits of continuing as we are towards higher temps; something already largely true for coal in particular and yet we continue to fearmonger about dead people being the only possible alternative. No, we don't have to let people die over here to stop climate-change but it's what we're supposedly happy to do to people elsewhere who hardly have any emissions to begin with. We can't keep delaying based on status quo outlooks in which we must abandon the people negatively impacted in the short term by forcefully stopping fossil fuels usage asap.
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