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
this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500)
The reason for the number is probably because it includes everyone making $140,000 a year aka a lot of labor aristocrats. This would include doctors, engineers, software developers, etc.
It’s really just restating what we already know which is that people who are comfortable in the imperial core (and rich people elsewhere) use way more resources than everyone else.
Man honestly as someone in the U.S. with a college degree who makes ~30k, basically no one except doctors should make 140k. That’s soooooo much money, I genuinely don’t know what the hell you could even do with it.
Props to Oxfam for continuing to put these reports out they are genuinely great radicalising material for libs
Israel is incinerating Palestine, the rich are incinerating everyone and everything else, and nothing significant is being done about it.
Rich people hate this one weird trick to fighting climate change
I think Gen Z does recognize how important Climate Change is as an economic issue. The real problem is that the powers that be hate even the most mild climate protests and encourage state violence on them.
How would we get over this slump then
Seize the means of production. Organize and refuse to labor for the rich. Reduce the wealth they can extract from your community.
That’s similar to my view, what I want to know is how can we get over the fact they are employing a lot of violence to discourage us from trying. I bet they learned a bunch of lessons from the last time some of us tried doing that.
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.
Guillotine. Gulag. I’m not picky.
