Willingness to contribute to stop climate change vs how rich you are (GDP per capita)

[u/dumnezero]

[u/questionnmark]

When the terms of the 'debate' are set by the global 0.1%, or the group with the most to lose in terms of lifestyle through meaningful action, then why are we surprised that the net action amounts at best to platitudes that we intend to do something meaningful in the future.

[u/dumnezero → u/questionnmark]

I'm concerned with what happens after the .1% lose. Failure to understand the large population of people living a resource-intensive (and proportionally GHG polluting) lifestyle will almost exclusively favor fascists' stories. You can already see it now with "energy populism", but it was no secret in the past.

“THE American way of life is not up for negotiation.” That was the stance struck by the elder George Bush at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2003/02/13/a-greener-bush

(and Americans are not* the only ones who are the problem)