Only 127 of the richest people in the world produce the same amount of carbon dioxide as a country of 70 million people like France emits. OXFAM’s latest report lays out a list of billionaires who seriously affect the planet.
O report This clearly shows the degree of disparity between the handful of people who walk into a room and the rest of the world when it comes to responsibility for global warming. And it also shows how there are characters who advertise themselves supporting friendlier environmental policies, while the money is invested in polluting sectors. There is a dissonance between what is said and what is done.
Finally the chicken said Eureka
Because when we talk about the system, when we talk about economic groups, concentration, mega-destruction, when we talk about capitalism, neoliberalism, the productive model, extractivism, global warming… we are talking about PEOPLE who act and make decisions every day
Already in January, Oxfam had published that the wealth of the ten richest men has doubled, while it is estimated that the income of 99% of humanity has deteriorated.
“Every 26 hours a new billionaire appears in the world, while inequalities contribute to the death of at least one person every four seconds”-
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Paolo Rocca and his family, through their holdings in Tecpetrol, Tenaris and Ternium, emit annually, according to Oxfam, almost 9 million tons of CO2eq. Among the world-renowned personalities is Carlos Slim, with almost 7 million tons of CO2eq.
Warren Buffett scores with 3.5 million tons of CO2eq; Bill Gates, with 4.8 million tons. Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, is responsible for the emission of 79 thousand tons of CO2eq. Jim Walton, from Walmart, for issuing 2.1 million tons; and Alice Walton, from the same network, for 2.2 million.
To compile this data, Oxfam used Bloomberg’s latest list of billionaires, from last August, and crossed the data with the participation of these people in their main corporate investments. At the same time, it weighted the carbon footprint of the companies in question according to the billionaire’s shareholding weight. to measure the company carbon emissionsthe report was based on data released by the companies themselves, together with international norms on the subject, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Index of billionaires and their carbon dioxide emissions
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the richest people in the world. Details on the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. Numbers are updated at the end of each New York trading day.
And if the report is based on official data, we know that the numbers could be higher, and in this case the numbers are not money, or stocks, or finance, they are cubic meters of carbon dioxide pollution that accelerate the global warming of the planet.
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“Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas emitted as a result of human activities. In 2017, CO2 accounted for approximately 81.6% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. from “human activities”
The activities of human beings say most of the explanations at a global level, that social responsibility tirelessly named as an equitably shared guilt that equals us in the daily neglect of the world, is a fallacy!
It’s not you, it’s them
Responsible humans who destroy the planet. Those responsible and guilty of the disaster are some very minority groups of humans, as it begins, once and for all, to clarify in the reports of the employees of the “specialized” organizations that were developed and are managed to solve the very serious problems, and the ferocious impacts of the reproduction and circulation of the financial and productive model of capitalism, such as the United Nations and the countless sub-organizations that derive from it, including the Conference on Global Warming.
The neighbor’s lightbulb, the drop of water from their faucet, their hectare with a few cows, their agroecological corn plantation doesn’t even reach the point of the problem, the problem is their investments in megaextractivist, erosive, destructive, polluting megacompanies: the The complete problem is oil exploration and exploitation, large hydroelectric dams to feed cities full of lights and indiscriminate consumption, nuclear experiments that require millions of liters of water for cooling, millions of daily flights from one side of the world to the other without meaning for life, rockets into space to explore or launch observers and antennas, the large food industries to finance, the millions of hectares of cement and concrete that cover a large part of the planet, the systematic slashing and burning of mountains and forests, essential for life on earth, to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), generate oxygen and cool the world… all this damage is not done by most of the world’s population, is done by a minority of tycoons and negotiators. And all this, when it constitutes a crime against humanity and against all living beings?
Every year, more than 36,000 million tons of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere, the main Greenhouse Gas that contributes to Climate Change. Most of these gases come from the use of fossil fuels, non-renewable energy generation and polluting human activities.
The 27th Conference on Climate Change was held in November 2022 COP27 who worked on what was agreed upon at COP26 and the Paris agreement.