I mean despite constant economic growth, something which fundamentally depends on increased energy consumption, the US has decreased emissions per capita by 30% since 1970:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...

This despite the fact that energy use has increased by about 60% during that time:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

How do you look at these facts and what you see in them is "The billionaires are destroying our planet and don't care?"

How do you not see 30% less emissions on 60% more energy usage as a big win for the environment that should be celebrated?

If you look at the rest of the world it generally follows the same trend, with the massive, massive exception of China:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

All this is not to let anyone off the hook - I've long said if there's any one piece of the emission reductions pie that's missing, it's political action against China as a dirty exporter that we've all come to depend on and offshore our dirty industry to. Now we are at least getting some kind of action on that front, even if it's a President and a justification that you don't like.

But my real point here is, I'm so sick of these Doomer takes that are just rhetoric about why the world is awful and you need to blame someone convenient. When the reality is that there has been enormous action and enormous progress all over the planet. Developed countries have cleaned up their act in a big way, sure they may have more work to do, but the next big frontier is to solve the China emissions issue in a way other than just moving all the dirty industry to India, and sorry to say this is not something that a random billionaire can fix overnight.