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[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The emissions of these billionaires is mostly not private jets and super yachts, and the emissions from super yachts and private jets are a very small percentage of the US’s total transportation emissions.

I'd say their personal emissions for their luxuries are still significantly several times the average person.

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Sure. In terms of directly produced emissions, most billionaires emit somewhere between 100-1000 times as much as the average American.

Which, yeah, isn't all that equitable. But there just aren't that many billionaires, and there's hundreds of millions of average Americans.

It's not like wealth, where the richest 735 billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest 166 million Americans.

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