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Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend (insideclimatenews.org)
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[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yes, sorry I really should've sat down and done that to begin with.

Billionaires’ lifestyle emissions dwarf those of ordinary people, but the emissions from their investments are dramatically higher still —the average investment emissions of 50 of the world’s richest billionaires are around 340 times their emissions from private jets and superyachts combined.

Well, there it is.

Edit: If there were 8 billion Amazon corporations, we would've shot past Venus a long time ago. The 90 minute mark seems to correspond to this. Getting rid of fifty (number of billionaires examined in the study) superyachts and a hundred 24/7 flying private jets would be next to nothing compared to the emissions from wider economy which they control, but which wouldn't go away when the guillotine does its thing.

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