• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It would significantly lower emissions given that the rich produce a hell of a lot more emissions than the average person.

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        1 year ago

        They objectively do not because no percent of people are rich.

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        1 year ago

        Killing rich people doesn’t stop people from driving cars or eating livestock or flying on airplanes or trading on sea lanes or requiring heat for their homes/water/etc or needing electricity

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      1 year ago

      I mean if we lived in a society where we could tax billionaires out of existence, then we could probably solve climate change with all that tax revenue.