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Clearly this growing number of folks know some financial angle that I don't. Its a exclusive club and I ain't in it.

Clearly, folks with money aren't putting that money where their mouths are with respect to their climate change signaling.

Oh, I see people disagree with this take. I'd like to know where it's wrong. They certainly could pressure each other so that only detestable "baddies" are left flying in private jets...

What? You mean Prince Harry jetting over to the world climate conference and telling us peasants to keep down the heating during winter ... or else ... is a hypocrite? No way!

Technically even that can be net(!)-positive but I doubt that most of the users of private jets are using them for helpful ends.

Not if even more people don't do anything because of their hypocrisy.

Only if the same thing cannot be accomplished if they flew commercial

Technically he could attend these conferences by zoom instead of flying a private jet but somehow that’s never an option for the rich climate-scolds.

Well…. They DID when video conferencing was unique, expensive and exclusive many years ago! (Live via exclusive satellite link from far-away-place)

Be glad because these are the people that are burning our future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

yeah i think i'll take being rich with a private jet instead of being middle class while still burning our future.

The average western citizen might emit more than what is sustainable already but we're talking about people that are emitting orders of magnitude more than that.

well, you're doing a fantastic job of outsourcing their guilt, i'm sure they sleep just fine at night at 30k feet while simultaneously convincing you to reduce your quality of life.

But there are orders of magnitude fewer ultra rich than there are average western citizens. Focusing on every westerner reducing their GHG emissions a bit would have far more substantial results than even completely eliminating 100% of the GHG emissions from the ultra rich.

The ultra rich have orders of magnitude more influence over politics, regulation, and private business than the average western citizen, so I would think that focusing on the ultra rich in one way or another should yield pretty substantial results.

If you're working rather than owning, that's your first 'mistake'

How do you correct that mistake without working?

Get lucky or marry into wealth.

Often you don’t, you likely have to keep working while also working on a transition plan.

I’m still working on my transition plan twenty years later. Some things are just not easy.

The first step is to take ownership as a worker so that you at least take what you make. You can investigate worker syndicalism, sociocracy, etc for ways to do that with the help of peers.

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