As the planet burns and the rich grow richer, the link between inequality and environmental destruction becomes undeniable.
The richest 1% are responsible for more emissions than 66% of the world’s population, polluting and plundering the planet for their own gain.
To save our planet, we must tackle the root causes of inequality.
There’s enough money for a green and fair world.
It’s just in the wrong pockets.
@greenpeace Trickle down was always about napalm and pestilence.
It's about the effects of perpetual war on society: honor-shame culture. War (credit: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2011.0252) turns vanity to vindictiveness (credit: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2010.1275, https://lausanne.org/global-analysis/the-good-news-for-honor-shame-cultures § punitive). H. sapiens is in ein Vernichtunginvestitionsruine that it can't possibly win. H. sapiens likes bodycam footage posts on social media and clips of it on TV of pacifist conspecifics it's arresting at protests or something.
Then it has money bias, WAIT OUT
[continued] which views poverty as punishment for not working enough.
H. sapiens' culture is that way for very simple reasons. Some tell lies because they like being punished for it (e=0). 94-96% of the population have the level of honesty and trust they do because the culture is gullible. They lie and know they can't trust each other. Therein is a group of about 4-6% that are honest and trust each other. They, too, are gullible, though. WAIT OUT
[continued] Given the culture, everyone is that way for being that way (https://docmckee.com/oer/soc/sociology-glossary/matthew-effect-definition/, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437118313906). Given it is a mammal, it fights each other to the death because it likes territory or sociability (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19758). Given pangdolins are territorial mammals that don't kill each other a lot, my guess is that the explanation for lethal intraspecific competition in H. sapiens is:
It fears solitude because it likes to.
WAIT OUT
[continued] In a perfect world, costs such as media literacy, not punishment such as doing hard time for fraud, would enforce honesty and H. sapiens would be an innocence-guilt culture indefinitely./gen
@greenpeace the single most green, pro-Earth, pro-humanity action an individual can take is killing a member of the 1%. I took the climate pledge, I hope all others do too.
@greenpeace Let's organize for opposite actions 
@greenpeace Can you outline a little how the 1% does achieve so much destruction. Not a fan of the billionaires but I cannot picture it.
@bgmastodon See also https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-burn-through-their-entire-annual-carbon-limit-just-10-days
(Note that the richest 1% is basically everyone making over $140k in PPP terms; that’s a lot of people, many of whom have gotten used to things like regular traveling, sitting in traffic almost daily, large fridges and air conditioning. And leaf blowers and lawn mowers and way too large portions of meat. And whatever else the “bottom half” might have or need less of.) @greenpeace
@janboddez @greenpeace Thx. Ok, I understand.
@greenpeace what's the methodology behind the calculation?
Greenpeace, let me correct this:
"the link between inequality and environmental destruction becomes undeniable"
For THIS:
The link between CAPITALISM and environmental destruction becomes undeniable.
If we denie that our mode of production is the base of inequality and environmental destruction, we are doing just gardening, not ecology with social consciusness (as some phrase out there says)
maricn @awkapuma @greenpeace
one thing stuck with me after watching this talk https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12324-on_digitalisation_sustainability_climate_justice is that after capitalism another *ism will come, and we need to make sure people learn to recognise patterns leading to exploitation and inequality rather than stopping at calling out capitalism as such..
so, yes, you're both right from my perspective!
If we are truly motivated to search out the root cause of something, then we need to be alert to the depth of our analysis.
'The wrong hands' may not go deep or far enough. While still being true, it doesn't address how we got in this predicament in the first place.
'Capitalism', likewise, while containing elements of truth, disguises a root cause deeper still, beyond the level of political philosophy, and of 'us and them'.
The curious may find more in my other comments.
@greenpeace
80% of human population in earth has never taken a plain. (and probably never will)
@greenpeace
From your previous reports I learned that the climate suffering of the LGBVTIXQ+ was the most important.
How come you now found out the real cause?
Sadly, your inability to learn is on par with the people who voted for Nazi Trump.
@greenpeace but NOT while decomposting
@greenpeace You got your own sins to contend with, assholes. Buncha antivax, anti GMO anti nuclear power anti....Shit. Is there anything you're actually FOR? Y'know, besides soaking up donations that would have been better given to just about ANY other 501(c)?
@greenpeace That's the rightwing plan and the rightwing peons will continue to vote for it - they are salivating over the thoughts of an apocalyptic crash of society. #seriously
@greenpeace global pollution tax NOW