Thats the trick ain't it? This whole thing would fix itself if we would leave everything alone. We won't.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
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There’s just too many of us to support this level of greed and inequality.
It's not about the amount of people when the top 10 own like 40% of everything.
But yeah, your sentence is still correct; the level of greed just comes from a tiny minority of people.
It is about the amount of people, at this level of greed. Everyone wants a house in the suburbs.
No, not everyone does.
Besides, we could probably utilise a lot of area sustainably to increase suburbs, worldwide, if we didn't live in this wageslave bullshit where only the top hogs all the money while not giving a fuck about sustainability or employee well being.
Is inequality actually the problem when it comes to carbon? Just as a thought exercise, if everyone on earth, or even within each county, received an equal share of GDP, I suspect emissions may increase. You'd replace the private jets with more of everything else. Inequality is a major issue for a host of other reasons though, absolutely.
At what point during "leaving it alone" does the profit happen?
There really needs to be a global fund that every country pays into, that's dispersed to countries with significant forestation in proportion to their contribution. If money is the barrier to climate action, we need to make it the best option economically to maintain forests and other similar areas.
Thing is, it is possible to make it profitable. Trees fixating carbon produce wood. Cut trees, sell wood. New wood grows. Repeat. The more wood we use in construction, furniture, paper, the more carbon is removed from the atmosphere.
Narrator: They did not leave it alone.
And this is what happened to the Earth.
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Bet we won’t though