Ciara37° heat is depressing. So is the way we’re dealing with climate collapse. The language we’re using, the excuses we’re making. Making heat records a game, excitedly watching to see if Number Goes Up. The news said the latest temperature had ‘ruined the chance of another new record’. And we all seem to agree that, conveniently, there’s no use in inconveniencing ourselves personally by consuming less or not flying until the day after every billionaire has given up their private jet.
GazaTrending@CiaraNi I wonder how much pollution there is from all of the private jets.
☭ Father Hardstone@harib_murshidi @CiaraNi not mention 'moon-phase' wristwatches, or even lambourghinis.
@dckim @harib_murshidi On the plus side, as long as those billionaires keep flying private jets and sailing private yachts and wearing expensive wristwatches and driving Lamborghinis, then the rest of us don't have to do anything. We don't have to give up holiday flights or fast fashion or regular mobile phone upgrades or make any changes whatsoever to our consumer behaviour. Thank heavens for billionaires!
@CiaraNi @harib_murshidi a well written straw argument.
We are all exceptionally rich, for the most part.
@dckim @harib_murshidi I think we need to bring the 10% (or whatever the figure is; it's somewhere around that) into the conversation as well as the 1%. Those of us who have the privilege to over-consume and take unnecessary flights are a small minority of all people on the planet. Collectively, we have actual consumer power to boycott and give clear signals to politicians.
We should try to get the word out on this for people to press the money into shoe-boxes and sit idle during vacation.
The economist are always pressing towards a 'full-employment' which will guarantee a maximal consumption for their profit-books.
More and more, expend all you can at all times. That's the prevailing motto. If you can't spend it invest it to be spent some other way.
Insatiable
@CiaraNi @dckim is this some kind of a taunt to the 'poor of the world' or something ?! 
correct me if I am wrong
The 'regular' things you have mentioned are also not a regular thing for the majority of the world population i.e. the global south ! I for one have not even seen the insides of an airliner yet, 
I am considered quite poor in Canada but, I have been on an airplane before.
If you count single trips, 5 times. There and back. 3 times to Germany where I visited relatives. 2 times to British Columbia, visiting relatives again.
I assume it is very expensive, and it was at that time too.
People blame these things for 'global warming'. I think that is the theme.
In the religious sense, it makes no difference. I am happy to have just food and water and a place to live.
100%
@harib_murshidi @dckim Sorry if it was unclear - I meant it ironically. My point was exactly that - that over-consumption and flights are not regular things for the majority of people on the planet. And that the '10%' minority who have these privileges can modify their behaviour as a collective signal, instead of just pointing at the 1% and saying: I will not change my consumer behaviour until the billionaires all give up their jets'.
Well said, I took everything in the positive sense. I can tell that you are a wonderful and thoughtful person.
Who else would take time to reply to whatever I originally wrote? I have forgotten the first subject matter by now...