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  • Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)MarkHoltom
    Apr 4, 2026, 9:34 AM

    It sucks when people are like "but flying is only 3% of global emissions" or "bitcoin is only 0.5%." It all adds up when you're in a climate emergency.
    Out of ALL the nations of the world, 203 (all but 6) emit under 2% of global emissions.
    - If global aviation were a nation it would be the #6 top emitter after China, the US, India, Russia, and Japan.
    - The richest 1% of humans contribute 50% of all flying emissions! It is an incredibly privileged act.
    As for Bitcoin, if it were a country, it emits more CO2 than 179 (86%) of the world's nations.

    Our planet isn’t dying because regular people won't go vegan or only take cold showers. It's dying because a handful of corporations and billionaires profit from pumping astronomical amounts of pollution into the air and water.
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  • Dave FreedmanFreedman@newsie.social
    Apr 4, 2026, 11:06 AM

    @MarkHoltom
    Corporations and billionaires pollute the air and water. Consumers pollute the air and water. I pollute the air and water. You pollute the air and water.

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  • cauZationcauZation@mastodon.social
    Apr 4, 2026, 1:07 PM

    @MarkHoltom Are we really at the point of having to directly replace these abusers, so future generation have just a 5% chance of survival, let alone thriving?..

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  • lucaluc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Apr 4, 2026, 1:48 PM

    @MarkHoltom Yet the run to be billionaire is still a widespread idealization, seeing how new and old media represent a distorted reality.
    Ask the average youngster if they would go for a life in luxury, disregarding any ethical principle, and /maybe/ they'll answer no. But a few seconds later they'll be on their smartphones, following the influencers proposing that exact idea.
    "Gutta cavat lapidem". And now it's a torrent.

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  • SeaSea1Am@mastodon.social
    Apr 4, 2026, 1:50 PM

    @MarkHoltom

    Leave rich people alone, they've suffered enough. Didn't you see the DOW dip below 50 thou?

    They did their part when they bought Elons electric cars, give them a break man, they are saving the planet all by themselves.

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  • AhanafRashidAhanafRashid@vivaldi.net
    Apr 4, 2026, 2:13 PM

    @MarkHoltom I don't think corporations harm our environment in a decade as much as numerous oil field explosions do.

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  • DMTomDMTomas@mastodon.social
    Apr 4, 2026, 4:17 PM

    @MarkHoltom so I guess - good news everyone, this will about to change in about… mmm t- n days, depending where you are located, as but n is < 30 days - air travel will become more and more available just to the y% of the population where y is - no one who is on mastadon;)… until the electric drone “microbuss” (for people from behind the former iron curtain - “mikrushka”) type of short hop electric flying things will swarm to fill in the market hole (my prediction #bongwisdom =)

    futurama meme
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  • desirable_dialoguedesirable_dialogue@ni.hil.ist
    Apr 4, 2026, 4:38 PM

    @MarkHoltom it absolutely is the common people who enable all this fuckery.

    And if the common people realize that, they can also realize their power and revolt.

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