silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 months agoWhy billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targetstheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down110
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-linkWhy billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targetstheconversation.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·edit-210 months agoBillionaires will not do this. They will make excuses about carbon footprint and sharing their private jets with their friend’s cats. Billionaires do not give. They take. And eventually they want to look like they give. So they give to what they want to appear to be. But 99.999% of billionaires won’t give away anything other than ill-informed opinions. And anything we frame to them will be thought of in terms of: what do we know; we are not billionaires
minus-squarelittletranspunklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 months agoWe, the billionaires, propose reducing our carbon footprint by -200% Yup, I expect nothing good from them
Billionaires will not do this. They will make excuses about carbon footprint and sharing their private jets with their friend’s cats.
Billionaires do not give. They take. And eventually they want to look like they give. So they give to what they want to appear to be.
But 99.999% of billionaires won’t give away anything other than ill-informed opinions.
And anything we frame to them will be thought of in terms of:
We, the billionaires, propose reducing our carbon footprint by -200%
Yup, I expect nothing good from them