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The super-rich are usually ultra-mobile. They have offices and business meetings around the world.
In their private jets, they walk on heated marble floors, oil their feet in gilded Turkish baths, move from floor to floor in glass elevators, and an in-flight garage ensures that the owner can land in their own Rolls. – Royce can leave the airport.
The superyachts of the super-rich are longer than a football field. They are equipped with concert halls, cinema halls, tennis courts, helipads, missile defense systems. Their showers leak water or champagne, depending on your preference.
Of course, the super-rich pay high prices for this luxury. They hire an army of employees, create jobs around the world with their huge consumption, and thus stimulate the economy. They live in luxury, and countless people feel a little better. Of course, wealth could be distributed more evenly. But for some reason everyone wins a little.
If only it wasn’t for the highest price we all pay for this lifestyle. This is precisely what the latest actions of the climate movement “The Last Generation” point to, namely “that the super-rich are destroying our livelihood day by day”: on Sylt, activists doused a private jet and a luxury store with orange paint. . Banners were hung out with the inscriptions “Your luxury = our crop failure” or “Your luxury = our drought.”
The numbers used to justify these protests are impressive. The lifestyle of the super-rich has a strong impact on the climate. Annual CO2– Billionaires are said to emit more than 8190 tons of CO2 are per capita. The whole of humanity today emits an average of 5 tons per capita per year, the Germans and probably also the Swiss emit about 10 tons. To achieve the Paris climate goals, it must be 3 tons.
So we are all challenged. But the richest 1 percent of people do twice as much damage to the climate as the entire poor half of the world. This is why the fight for climate cannot be won without the super-rich. Everything will be fine.
Ursula von Arx knows that the average rich have it easier because they have to do without less. Von Arx writes to Bleek every second Monday.
Source: Blick
I am David Miller, a highly experienced news reporter and author for 24 Instant News. I specialize in opinion pieces and have written extensively on current events, politics, social issues, and more. My writing has been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC News. I strive to be fair-minded while also producing thought-provoking content that encourages readers to engage with the topics I discuss.
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