"Contrary to a lot of guilt-tripping pleas for us all to take the bus more often to save the world, your individual choices are probably doing very little to the world's climate. The real impact comes on the industrial level, as more than 70 percent of global emissions come from just 100 companies. So you, a random American consumer, exert very little pressure here. The people who are actively cranking up the global thermostat and threatening to drown 20 percent of the global population are the billionaires in the boardrooms of these companies."
Luke Darby at GQ describes those who have caused climate change.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
"An Honest Assessment of How We Got Here Lays the Blame Squarely at the Feet of the 1 Percent"
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twenty-first century
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