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Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.

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> fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.

Yachts that fly. Weird world, indeed :)

Its a reference to this meme format: https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/11ayxqc/me_irl/

It's missing a Porsche hanging below on ropes. Someone fix the meme.

Don't forget to stop eating meat, while we heavily subsidize the resources industry and frack the land.

I wonder how many cross country business trips were necessary while designing the cap.

"We can't do everything, therefore we should do nothing". This kind of thing is just content-free dismissal.

Given the budget, resources, and executive power I have - yup - nothing is exactly I can do.

Bad straw man. The ketchup cups are green-washing and its right to call them out as such.

Certain senators flying in private planes too!

It is rather baffling that there are no zillionaires flying airborne yachts yet, you'd have thought that one of 'm would have gotten others to build him a modern Graf Zeppelin or similar.

Apart from that, yes. Do they not realise that their hypocrisy makes their supposed engagement for the 'climate' and 'planet' null and void? Probably not or possibly they imagine they'll have enough money and power to force their ideology down the throats of the general population.

The Ministry for the Future presents these ideas where the ruling class and then the proletariat is forced into using ecofriendly modes of transportation like fast yachts and dirigibles for long distance travel. I imagine a future where we'll see this but it's going to take some serious unrest before the ultra wealthy give up their private jets.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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