Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
www.theguardian.com
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

Insane statistics. I honestly wouldn’t have imagined it was this much.
We desperately need to get into peoples heads (in particular Gen Z, in the sense that this is an issue they really care deeply about) that climate change is an economic problem, that the rich cannot be negotiated with, and that it’s not the working class that is responsible for overconsumption

  • version_unsorted@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Seize the means of production. Organize and refuse to labor for the rich. Reduce the wealth they can extract from your community.

      • version_unsorted@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, it is really tough. Reducing debts has been the only thing that has gotten me closer to anything actionable with a level head, freeing up my ability to start actions that don’t make me afraid of losing my job, like unionizing, these corpos keep pushing though and who knows, maybe we snap. For now, organizing is a muscle, keep flexing it, we learn to work together in solidarity and then we have real bargaining power.