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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 23:41:36 JST pettter

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   @CoolerPseudonym This is just doomerism.

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     CoolerPseudonym (coolerpseudonym@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 23:41:37 JST CoolerPseudonym

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     We can’t get out of the climate crisis by expropriating the rich, or what we think of in the developed west as the rich, because the “sustainability” threshold is way, way down the wealth and income ladder. Eliminate the personal carbon emissions of everyone making more than a million a year and I doubt you’d be able to detect the dip.

     The scale of demand destruction that will have to happen to keep the planet habitable will ruin the way of life of most people, if it doesn’t just kill them.

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     CoolerPseudonym (coolerpseudonym@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 23:41:38 JST CoolerPseudonym

     This take seems to confuse the top 1% of income globally—more than seventy million people—with the top 1% in the richest countries. If you’re above the US median, you’re probably in the global 1%.

     If the “everybody else” we must live like is something like the global income average, that’s way below poverty in the US. What we think of as an ordinary dignified working class lifestyle (in the developed West) would be ruled out by this particular limit. https://todon.eu/@ramonita/111442142613775266