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Daddo55 t1_jczo0d7 wrote

Reply to comment by topazsparrow in UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster by filosoful

Having the “elite” show up to Davos in private jets is about as hypocritical as you can get. Maybe Leo on his mega yacht is worse.

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newest-reddit-user t1_jd2brf8 wrote

I'm so sick of this talking point as if it wasn't seeded by elites who don't want to do anything about climate change in the first place. It's completely obvious and transparent, but perfect for them.

They can, after all, just continue to use their private jets and yachts without worry, because normal people won't want to do anything about it because, hey, the elites have private jets and yachts, so why do anything about climate change?

It's pathetic, really.

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Daddo55 t1_jd2zskz wrote

If the leaders who are promoting climate change aren’t doing anything personally to fight it, it’s hypocrisy plain and simple.

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newest-reddit-user t1_jd42it0 wrote

Nobody is promoting climate change, except oil executives.

But so what if it's hypocrisy? Who benefits from you deciding that climate change doesn't matter because of it? The same hypocrites!

If it was up to me, private jets and yachts would be illegal (or severely taxed so that the outcome would be similar) for climate reasons. Why aren't they? Because there is no strong political movement to fix it and a big reason for that is nonsense like you are peddling.

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Daddo55 t1_jd43igb wrote

Agree on the jets and yachts. If govt was serious on climate change, they would tax the shit out of them.

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newest-reddit-user t1_jd46xsj wrote

Yes, but they aren't because people aren't making them—and a lot of people do not take climate change seriously because the "zone has been flooded with shit" to borrow a phrase.

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r0bdaripper t1_jd36njy wrote

Regardless of who started it, the point remains the same. When you preach to the world about cutting these things out to save it but show up in a multimillion dollar private jet the message falls flat.

Change doesn't come from people yelling and screaming about it, change comes from doing the thing you want others to do.

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jeerabiscuit t1_jd2x7z3 wrote

Covid was dress rehearsal.

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Daddo55 t1_jd2zwe2 wrote

Hope not. Covid was an absolute cluster fuck of bullshit measures that did nothing but make big pharma $$$$$.

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