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“Dame Joan Collins and Brian Cox unimpressed by historic trip, saying ‘let’s take care of this planet first’”

Brian and Joan should get on it.

8 billion people on this planet and for some reason it’s vogue to complain about billionaires trying to reach space.

Are we still burning coal to create 40% of our electricity globally?

Still overfishing the oceans?

Causing mass extinctions?

Plastic and micro plastics everywhere?

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The billionaires are famously anti coal, anti fishing, and anti petroleum, in fact they've divested completely from these things, it's the darn 8 billion regular people who control the biggest industries, and its their fault, its ridiculous to even complain that the wealthiest few are dumping huge amounts of resources in to space vacations for other wealthy people.

It was definitely the non wealthy who innovated resource collection to unsustainable self destructive levels, so let's give the billionaires a break, already!

Fewer than 3000 billionaires in the world.

Everyone wants these 3000 people to save the world?

Best selling vehicles in the US.

1. Ford F-Series (534,831 units sold)

2. Ram Pickup (434,772 units sold)

3. Chevrolet Silverado (407,266 units sold)

The world uses 100 million barrels of oil a day.

Heck, many Americans don’t even believe in climate change.

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