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"Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tons, which is more than three times the emissions of the billionaires' private jets," the study's executive summary reads. "This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world."

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/carbon-inequality-kills/

Carbon Inequality Kills

Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

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LM Little Nov 30

@jmcrookston #Canada's #MarkCarney cut the luxury tax on private yachts and jets along with a free pass on #emissions.

#cdnpoli #ClimateCriminals #NoMoreBillionaires

Al & Val's Modern Homesteading Nov 30

@jmcrookston I don't feel like any normal human being would miss 23 yachts if they suddenly disappeared. Or 18 billionaires for that matter.

Jo - pièce de résistance Dec 26

@alandvalonline @jmcrookston
We wouldn’t miss them, but within a short time after they are gone, & no new billionaires created, we will wake up to all we missed & were denied.
We will grieve what never was, what we didn’t fight for & we did fight for, the harms done, & the quality of life taken from us by a tiny number of men. Maybe 666 of them total.

They have power in financial paper tigers they make us believe in & keep us dependent on it as if it is anything but OUR labor value.

OGJester has moved Nov 30

@jmcrookston Ukraine has demonstrated that you can sink large warships or tankers with relative ease using jet ski-sized drones. Seems like a proven method for dealing with pesky billionaires.

@OGjester @jmcrookston they were sinking ships designed specifically to resist attacks. These billionaire yachts are definitely less well armed and armored. I doubt it would take something the size of a jet ski to sink a civilian ship.

King of Tors Nov 30

@jmcrookston I admit to being surprised by that. Not that their mega-stinkpots* are massive polluters, but that they're worse polluters than private jets.

* if you don't know, know you will: sailors call motorboats stinkpots

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this we must kill carbon inequality?

Lats (314 ppm)Nov 30

@jmcrookston I saw a millionaires toy (not a billionaires) being fuelled at a south coast NSW town and the thousands of dollars it cost to do it was frightening and astounding. Aside from not even being able to afford a deposit on the boat, I couldn’t afford the fuel bill once. That this smaller version makes it a public enemy, it and the fully fledged version needs to be struck off as a business expense if banned totally from Australian ports.

@Lats a buddy worked on a yacht not long after we left school (years ago now). He had a big old Mercedes car that he filled up with Diesel whenever he filled the boat up. I couldn't believe it, fuel was one of my big expenses. He then explained it was basically a rounding error on the boat's total. That's when I realised these things are horrific.
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@Niall @Lats @jmcrookston my "yacht" was a sailboat; and my wife and I studiously sailed her whenever we could - right up to dropping anchor and departing from being anchored (unless it was a very crowded location). So we only ran the engine about 200 hours per year even though we were aboard and traveling full time - about one tank full, or 300L.

On the other hand, a friend had a 20m motor trawler. He'd travel 600 miles east to Venezuela to fill his tanks because they were selling diesel from a dock at a naval base for less than $0.05 per liter. He could take on about 8 tonnes.

Keiþ 🔭Nov 30

@jmcrookston We could improve the planet massively by removing billionaires. Anyone who hoards whilst others suffer isn’t human.

🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp Dec 26

@IChewPorridge @jmcrookston

Other species share, its an evolutionary advantage. Lets not accuse non-humans of being inherently less altruistic than humans

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R8fbIlWiDj0

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Gurologe Nov 30

@jmcrookston Nice read https://www.editionsamsterdam.fr/gregory-salle/

Grégory Salle

Grégory Salle est chercheur en sciences sociales au CNRS.

Jonathan Nov 30

@Janx intéressant

antoniovr Nov 30

@jmcrookston this is quite relevant as equality and fairness is a value we must have. But it is also important to avoid tricking ourselves thinking that fixing the excess of a few would fix the problem for that it is totally not true. In fact the article mention that such emissions are equivalent to 800-900 average[*] people. We should also then think how many billionaires are there for each 900 people. The answer is none as they represent a really small quantity of people...

antoniovr Nov 30

[*] = using median for this kind of comparisson instead of average would be much more precise (and probably it would lead to a worse ratio)...

Jonathan Nov 30

@antoniovr I'm aware of all this. Just a note but I believe the study says the billionaires' emissions over one year are equivalent to 800 to 900 years worth of emissions by the average person.

antoniovr Nov 30

@jmcrookston 800 people 1year = 1 person 800 years

Jonathan Nov 30

@antoniovr yes..However I prefer to be accurate when quoting and it highlights the equivalence (or not) of one person's emissions in the case referring to one person.

@jmcrookston at first i was baffled at how a vehicle that travels floating on water would have so much more emissions than something that has to push itself through the air to stay up, and then i remembered that you can stay on the water for an extended period of time and these people each easily create a dumpster or more of garbage every day (in addition to them being themselves and the garbage that they are)

Matt Hall Dec 2

... So... The Orcas are right, yeah?

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I think i remember a bridge in Seattle was delayed and might have been made taller to accommodate Bezos' yacht. So i have to wonder if they count emissions from delayed and overdone civic projects that are trying to meet the demands these superyachts put on our infrastructure

Simon Zerafa Dec 26

Seems like a very good use for 23 propulsion disabling devices 😇

f*cking b*tch club Dec 26

@jmcrookston so those 18 b’s own more than one yacht each?

@grammasaurus @jmcrookston Jeff Bezos has a superyacht for his superyacht. His main superyacht has carbon fiber masts that mean there isn’t space to land his helicopter — so he has another superyacht that follows it with a crew of around 20, just so he can be flown to the helipad there and transferred to the main superyacht. I wish this was a joke.

f*cking b*tch club Dec 28

@mathew @jmcrookston (slams forehead on table)

I think I’d read that somewhere before, but it’s ‘good’ to be reminded just how awful these oligarchs are.

@mathew That's fucking horrific

dissident Dec 26

@jmcrookston I wonder, how long will it be before #directaction ascends to arranging a select group of billionaires early appointments with St Peter?