Climate change and the rich | DW Documentary
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- Wealthy people are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than poorer people. To reduce carbon footprints and prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis, one climate researcher is proposing a CO2 cap and trade system for individuals.
Disasters such as droughts, fires, and floods are occurring all over the world, triggered by the climate crisis. To counteract this catastrophe, Germany is among many nations pledging to slow global warming at well below two degrees. To achieve this target, the amount of harmful carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere must be restricted in the coming decades.
If a fundamental principle of justice were applied, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says that each person would be allowed to emit no more than three tons of CO2 per year by 2050. But Germans are a long way from achieving this target, with an average carbon footprint of eight to ten tons. By burning fossil fuels, many millionaires emit more than 100 tons of carbon dioxide per year, and the world’s wealthiest individuals emit thousands of tons each.
Most of the rich protagonists in this film show no willingness to reduce their climate-damaging behavior. One of them flies in a private jet, while another drives a gas-guzzling sports car for fun.
Schellnhuber, a renowned scientist, is therefore calling for a carbon cap to be imposed on individuals, while allowing private trading in CO2 credits. He proposes that each person receives an allowance of three tons of CO2 per year. Those who need more would have to buy from those who consume less, Schellnhuber suggests.
However, German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party is not in favor of individual CO2 caps. In an interview, Habeck says he’s not focused on the question of "individual budgets.”
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Did you hear that?? "Luckely the population is split into different groups... " That says it all....
Does he not fear consequences or his business because of this? Cancel culture is real you know.
@@hildaelson4203 yeah super real 🤣
Pls communism do not work.. karma can get him to.. w
We need to stop as society to think it's ok to act like he does with his? money.. If we shamed them not praise them by following them on social media, liking pictures etc that promotes this shit..
We can make it less fun for them
@@hildaelson4203 it's the truth.. i find that he sees people with less money than him as gross & "snotty".. he has the same human body as everyone else. Like he's never sick.. or is sick in a less gross way..
He will be treated same as everyone else if shit hits the fan & he ends up in an ICU
At least he is honest about how he feels unlike the hypocrites in the WEF flying in on their private jets in the name of saving the planet.
The entitlement expressed by the man on the plane is astounding, but not entirely surprising. And there are so many more like him.
Hi, I'm one of them. This is a propaganda piece :)
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds tax you out of existence
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds More like a rather inconvenient truth.
@@mihhbfdunndgjmbfds it is so much clear propaganda that I feel insulted they try to put it down my throat.
has not changed for millennia
The man on the plane is an ethical failure. I can't understand such lack of empathy and concern. It's utterly disgusting and I can only hope one day he'll face his own harmful ignorance.
So true these kind of people die lonely
But the issue is, we all will face
@@anmolgupta8750 yep
Climate change is for the poors. We have to pay more and more for everything...Read: Rockefeller: Controlling the Game by Jacob Nordangård, Ph.D.
New cities are getting ready for super 🤑 rich people neom city Saudi ,telosa ,city by Elon Musk,bill gates etc
U don't understand how rigged the game really is
these rich a-holes just exist for their money and forgetting the poor or non rich
I respect brutally honest businessmen more than politicians.
A guy that undresses before small children can be called brutally honest too. That does not change the fact you that he is disgusting.
So would you vote for a brutally honest businessman with these beliefs?
I wouldn't call a condescending scumbag brutally honest but keep licking ig
Why don’t they ever ask about China?,India? other emerging economies. They want Western govts to tax their citizens into oblivion and allow these other countries off the hook?
A false dichotomy
I am consistently surprised by how much DW is willing to tackle topics that are deliberately avoided by other media outlets. I appreciate this dedication to a realistic worldview. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your positive feedback :)
I live between Australia and South America..your programs are high quality 👌
narhhh, they just cherry picking on the rich here. trying to blame the rich for their poor state of affairs
@@etobillionslol
Excellent point!!!
Such people avoid taxes and corporate social responsibility for the similar reasons. I'm astounded by the audacity of the guy on the plane.
He's honest.. unlike those flying into davos
The arrogance and sense of self-entitlement of one rich person is enough to offset the efforts of 10 or so households. When some ignorant celebrity's jet produces more CO2 than a 100 cars for just a 5 minute relocate, why on earth do we still bother. Unless some drastic measures are taken to curb the output of people like this, it all feels a bit pointless.
It is pointless and any further persistence on this will only affect the poor even further.
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You are not only free but unemployed also
Thank you for displaying the utter arrogance of the rich. We always knew, but exposing such selfishness is a necessary step towards our survival. Thank you.
He owes you noting. Your just jealous 🤣
I like that hes atleast honest, unlike the btc loving, iPhone (slave labor) tweeting woke gen
says the brokes
@@addictcar69 and...what big fat car is yours? You're the one that's jealous😂
Then why do you continue to buy sh!t and making them rich?
Stop going on holidays and paying for hotels making them rich.
Stop buying phones, tv and gadgets making them rich.
I guess you're part of the problem making these selfish people rich.
First time my poverty is making me feel good because I can't afford to pollute.
Cheap food, cheap tech and cheap clothing pollutes a lot, in order for us to pay cheap stuff there needs to be a lot of pollution. Maybe you don't see it, but you (and we all) are the reason for that pollution being made.
@@HaimRich94 The point is the arrogant greedy rich pollute more than the poor. Everyone pollutes. It is a matter of degree.
@@joeblow5087 And my point is that WE are the ones who are actually financing that pollution on their end. Cheap clothing is probably one of the most polluting industries in the whole world (they pollute more than all the examples given in this video) but people don't care about it and get crazy buying them so those industries continue polluting more and more
Will you also eat bugs to "save the climate"?
@@HaimRich94
I think you need to understand the effect of drugs, mr Rich. 🙂
The idea of creating dependencies on consumers is not a new concept in the corporate world. You cant just "stop buying food", or "reduce your food intakes", because it is "more pollutive". There are several health consequences from such actions. Those are IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS!
"Maybe you don't see it, but you (and we all) are the reason for that pollution being made."
Not to mention that what you suggest goes against the data displayed in the documentary, which would label you "anti-intellectual". Are defying the scientific methods done in the data provided? 🙂
One minute in and I've seen everything I need to see. Even if you strip these folks of all their money and material wealth, the thing they'll care about most is not the climate, but their speed in retaining their wealth. If the climate crisis wants to be tackled, change has to be forced upon the rich; they will not change willingly.
and yes judge thousands by one person, you're just as arrogant as he is.
Once climate hits critical level to a point such as where we will walk with respirators on our faces these fools will be the last ones in line to pay for it, and by the time we hit critical they will flee to mars or something. 😅
You're correct 👍
The rich people are destroying the world and they blamed the poor people BRAVO!!! 👏
Facts!!
Well, to be fair, everyone's destroying the world, rich and poor. So... it's hypocrisy to blame the rich.
Lol yeah
I love how all the rules will most likely only affect the working class and not the rich. and all the propoganda that is being pushed will not help anything. the EU exception for private jet for the co2 tax on kero says as much
This is why I don't have any hope for the future. It is not pessimism is just being honest with the reality we are facing.
Sorry my brother, but you are right. We all can now only breach for impact. I wish you happiness where you can still find it be it in this life or thereafter.
I think hearing the guy on the private jet explains all you need to know about people who are wealthy
Your comment explains that all of those that are poor paint everyone who is rich with the same brush.
do you see what i did there?
This man's first words😳Gross public travels? Snotty nose people?? Wow😧
It’s called entitlement. Welcome to narcicism „deluxe“.
Every family has that one person who will break the family's financial struggle, I hope you become the one 😊
So basically let's restrict poor people at 3t co2 and let rich people buy as much as they want from their pocket money....... great idea. Seems fair 🤣
Exactly my thought...
Is this man pretending to be a villain? Because I just can’t believe someone this wicked actually exists and would admit to it.
So good that he keeps the lights off in the plane. Glad to see everyone is doing something for a better world 💚❤🌍
Prohibition in particular for short private jet flights or hefty taxes. It’s ridiculous how these people spit on the working class people
Last time I was in a class was back in school.
Better to tax them to advance sustainable fuel development.
@@KazMaw1 "Better to tax them to advance sustainable fuel development."
If you announce higher taxes on the rich, they just move their businesses to low-tax countries. That "race to the bottom" among governments, in who offers the least amount of taxes - and more opportunities not to pay them - to corporations is what has led to the widespread material struggle of the working class in industrialised countries over the past four decades of neoliberalism. "Taxing" has long ceased to be a working tool in achieving economic welfare or solving climate crisis.
@@KazMaw1 Tax who/what, fossil fuels or the rich or flights…?
One should only tax fossil fuels and leave everything else tax-free. Then non-fossil energy will grow, whatever it is and people will have full freedom to use whatever non-fossil option is there.
Climate action needs freedom.
@@demil3618 And plastic straws. Plastic straws must be demanded back into people's everyday life. It is degrading when we have to use cardboard straws for drinking. Tyrants took them from us but together we will bring them back.
WEF used hundreds of private planes and ate steak . Not public transport or eat bugs .
Stop War business, which require millons of tons of fossil fuel to opetate fighter jets, aircraft carriers, war ships armoured vehicles etc.
the idea of a co2 allowance for individuals is absolutely insane and will be used to further hurt the poor and oppressed. Efforts should be focused entirely at large corporations
everything is abou to make the rich richer... and using youtube is one thing that only make youtube richer.
Yep. You get it.
The funny thing is that this video is trying to convince us that the wealthy would follow these rules hahahaha
I was thinking about this the entire time! Rich will continue to do whatever they want, middle class will just be unable to even do the little travelling they still can and poor, well, unfortunately they won't see any change...
Thinking that it will be free for the working class to fight climate change is native. Carbon tax or other similarly working systems is the obvious answer
@@onlyeveryone2253 one thing is a carbon tax (which I was under the impression that some sort of it already existed in fossil fuel related expenses), another is a CO2 allowance. A carbon tax is something that I might be able to understand and support (provided that you have viable, cleaner alternatives), a CO2 allowance no way!
There should be regulation of private jet flights. However, personal carbon emissions are hard to calculate, and trading carbon credits is misleading because carbon capture is far away, and many reforesting projects would have happened anyway, and aren't done in the places that matter. Instead, they are used as a distraction from easily preventable emissions from fossil fuel reliant companies.
27 minutes realizing "who would've thought that rich entitled a-holes were rich entitled a-holes?"
They will tell you it's 'envy'
Just a cry baby,nothing to see here...
@@k.k.8394 I pray everyday I don't become obnoxious like these mfs
Not only 26:02 "not reining in the rich restricts the lives of so many people", but we should also consider international and intergenerational budget constraints, and not only regarding CO2e but also the depletion of other commons like fresh water, biodiversity and the mineral resources that the poor need to cover basic needs but of which they are being priced out to cater to the rich.
Most eloquently put Miguel , well done , every well put explanation helps !
Thank you so much dw for making people aware about this important discussion.
Which Engine type does your Bugatti have?
200 private jets flew in WEF members to Davos this year
where Is Dicaprio?
Remember, the earth will surey outlived us all, if we are foolish enough to careless about the earth, it will definitely purged us out. We all know what that means.
Humans will perish like the dinosaurs, it's just a matter of when... In the meantime the rich will enjoy their money, we poor people will suffer to the end.
@user-eu5ey1oz1c : Too late. Conservative-capitalism has already caused a mass extinction event and we will go extinct by our own hand if we continue to allow the few to destroy the many.
@@feleciawallace8420 : Only if we just give up. I don't know about your country, but in mine Nobody is winning because the largest group of American voters keep voting for Nobody (literally).
If we change that, we change the world. But too many people have simply given up, instead.
Nature will purge the parasitic human race soon. Fingers Crossed
@@aylbdrmadison1051 humans are unpredictable. It's better they suffer before going out like the dinos
GREAT WORK DW TEAM🫡👏👏👏
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Hi from Kenya
finally you're _starting_ to address the elephant in the room! have a like
Rich people doubled their CO2s. Then tax them X3 as usual.
Rules for thee, not for mee
If you're rich enough to afford a private jet, you're rich enough to afford to not think about anyone else in the world but you.
Pretty much sums it up!
Trash
Thank you for wise conclusion !!
Not really
Last night, after midnight, I was wakened 7 times by private jets, taking short cuts and flying low over my house, heading to a private airport. My house gets coated in black carbon, the rain doesn't help, I have to use soap and scrub it off. I wonder how it affects my lungs.
You house is coated in particulate emissions not in CO2. CO2 is a gas. If it would coat anything then the veggies from the greenhouses would be black not green. Yes, it's very damaging to your health. I'd consider moving.
Check ultra fine particles near airports. There was a report from Schiphol that stated even 15 km radius has negative health effects.
@@ksoosk Yep...I used to live in Uithoorn... bloody jets are a nuisance there. Can't hear the person next to you talking, that's how low they fly over the town. And everything got darkened by sooth.
Where do you live? Not good for your health.
Can you contact a local authority like the Transportation or Environment regulatory bodies about it?
‘Palm trees in the Baltic Coast”! Priceless!
Maybe the questions to ask those rich, what about your children? Will you be able to look them in the eyes and not be ashamed to tell them that you did not do anything to prevent it?
maybe your vote will make a difference, your everyday behavior might just slow the down the political decisions that need to be made ...
They will be on Mars so all this won't matter
their children will not have to really deal with it. They will also be wealthy from the massive undeserved undertaxee inheritance.
@@Bas201 Those are two statements. One the world is broken. Two thus money is worthless. Sounds deep but I don't think it says much
narhhh, never why would anyone take a world problem and make it theirs.
I don't believe focusing on personal carbon footprint takes us anywhere. We have to rethink our whole production chains, especially how we use virgin materials, what energy we use, how long life we plan to these products, how they are repaired, maintained and then recycled. An old man driving a really old Maserati doesn't matter at all. In the fight against climate change we easily lose the sense of scale, when discussing about effective ways to change our course. One example of an impactful change could be, that in the future clothing will be much more expensive, but they have longer lifespan and big part of textile/fashion business is repairs, and not just selling new.
Another example, that can ease the understanding of scale, is that when Fortum bought Uniper, Fortum gained a larger carbon footprint than the whole Finland (5,6 million people), where Fortum is from. Focusing on personal carbon footprint, rich or poor, won't really take us far.
Putting a price on emissions doesn't solve the problem; it only capitalizes on it as a profit-making opportunity.
Hypocrites that what they are
Something I have never understood is that how paying for carbon credits reduces emissions and solves the issue? Btw, aviation in general contributes to 2.5% of total carbon emissions and impacts 3.5% of global warming. Not saying that is insignificant but I think it needs to be put into perspective. It would be nice that the money collected from carbon credits would be 100% applied towards innovation because that is where the real solutions lie.
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I think its worth noting the combination of actions required to be effective. For instance, the family that ranks 6.9 tons per person could have that number slashed if the switched to an electric car, perhaps got a more efficient heating system, and Germany managed to make their grid cleaner buy shifting away from an ongoing reliance in coal and natural gas. Those three things alone, which would have essentially no impact on their quality of life, might bring them below 3 tons of CO2 per person. This, in addition to reigning in the egregious buy the few, could be substantial but the solution needs to be holistic
It always amazes me how easy it is to miss the point!!
@Jeanneret, & what point would that be?
Also, carbon credits will be used against the people. Companies and the elite can afford to buy credits as much as they want. While the middleclass gets told to take the bike
Lets be honest, it's large corporations and factories. Individuals are nothing compared to that. We could all link hands and be as "good" as possible but it wouldn't matter. There are too many people on the planet and too much consumerism.
Is interesting to see that the green house emition reduction policies are impacting way more the poor than the group the video is talking about. They will not care if electricity bill goes from 5 EUR to 400 EUR, is nothing for them. But for the normal people, is a real kick in the budget.
Because the group of poor people and the total carbon emmissions is way bigger. If you want to lower the emissions you have to look at the bigger picture.
For someone fighting ‘climate change’ she sure looks like a BIG consumer. No pun intended.
How DARE YOU! 😡
The man on the private jet seems like a villain out of central casting.
Lex luthor
Having the luxury to hop on a private jet to avoid little, noisy, snot-nose kids on the train does sound good though.. just had to put that out there.
For lower middle class family they have a nice house, and a newer car. I think DW should make a video on the struggle of the middle class of other countries. With my income I'm considered middle class, in my Country, and I don't have such a nice house, and I drive a 22 year old Toyota. It's all perspective. It's hard to tell someone who has worked hard for there life style they have to change for the better of all.
I was thinking the same, they look very well fed, well dressed, nice house, nice car, they have a vacation budget... All through the magic of colonialism I guess, and not just historical but current, too
Yet another great DW documentary!
A friend of mine sells low wattage LED lighting for industrial applications. . His company will pay for the entire process of swapping out whatever lighting products are in place with a LED product of the same performance. No cost to the business owner at all. His company gets paid a percentage of the energy savings from their monthly power bill. Or, if the customer chooses to pay for the products installed, they keep all their monthly savings. For an example, an average Wal-Mart store spends $30,000 each month just for lighting the store. LED lighting in the same store reduces energy costs to $6,000. LED lighting products have a useful life that averages 5 times longer than other types. It also saves on routine maintenance. That's almost a $300,000 yearly savings.
I figured he was killing it with a deal like that! The fact is, he is lucky if he sells 5% of the customers he pitches to. I couldn't believe what he was saying.
I used to hate private jet flier myself until I learned that transportation including all plane, car and train travel is only 2% of the carbon emissions every year worldwide. We have to change our power stations. That is responsible for 85% of carbon.
Germany is going crazy over CO2 emmisions
Sure, the rich pollute waaaay more than anyone else.
But let's not kid ourselves or act morally superior to them. Because if anyone else had their level of wealth, they'd live the same lifestyle in a heartbeat!
I would definitely, and I'm not ashamed to day so. It's human nature to desire more, even if it has a negative environmental effect.
Such is the nature of the beast🤷♂️
@Mother Earth Wow, congratulations on being such a good person...
But, you are absolutely in the minority with that mindset.
No doubt. The problem is them preaching to ppl how badly they are affecting the climate while they themselves are doing worse.
They'd never give up their lifestyles either, even if meant doing it for the "greater good", but us poor peasants should. That's peak hypocrisy.
The guy at the opening justifies eating the rich.
He’s not even rich, he’s a faker wannabe, it’s all fake
he is what you would call a "Lappen"
Rich or poor, we shall all end up in a box, in the ground, so to speak.
So the environmentally friendly family is still more than double the 3 ton limit living on a shoe string budget, so who are we kidding saying simply imposing a limit is a viable in a modern society? A cap cannot happen without providing people viable alternatives that don't involve living like it's the 18th century and at the moment that's not viable. That's the whole dilemma. Obviously there is an inherent unfairness to the who thing but life is unfair. In the universal sense, anyone living in an industrial country is effectively the wealthier half who is essentially entirely responsible for the problem to begin with.
I wish I could get ride of the need for common car travel but it is impossible with the transportation system in my country
Stop formula one motor cycle /car race. Stop all sorts of motor sports which need lots fossil fuel.
Also the assumption about the diesel car seems weird; the average emission is 120g per km so 2,4 kg per back and forth trip so it is 1200 trips not 600 as DW docu gives
You would need at least 30% additional production costs in terms of co2
@@Bas201 that should only be applied to the first buyer not the end user. For example if someone build an house 1950. The labour is already paid for and partially included in the price. Those workers can't claim you own them something
The calculation was made for the specific case of the car of the lady. Short trips (urban cycle) emit more CO2.
As a student in geography and working on research pertaining to climate change, these documentaries are quite hilarious to me. I get it, these rich people indulge in activities that have a larger carbon footprint than an average joe but their lifestyle is a mere drop in the bucket. Our real issues arise from the general use and production of fossil fuels and our dependency on livestock to feed ourselves and there isn't much we can do about it, the near future is completely bleak and governments are not willing to take action right now, even if these guys completely stopped their luxurious activities, we still wouldn't make any sort of impact in the fight against climate change.
These documentaries do nothing but direct attention to something that will not help us in the fight against climate change regardless of how much we demonize these rich people, they are pretty big assholes but unfortunately they are not enough to fight against climate change. The real targets of documentaries should be politicians in the pockets of oil companies that refuse to make changes and stop policies that will actually help make an impact.
Excellent video. The problems created by the "HAVE" is always push under the carpet not to be seeing. People how have the money to spend will find ways to spend it regardless the result of their action, and of course, they will find a good reason to do so.
Is socialism rising in Germany and DW? 😂😘
DW has been doning fantastic job..Now i am addicted to climate change documentary of DW
DW, my respects for touching very sensitive but true topics and not going in the same direction of everyone of hammering the ordinary people (that have no possibility of recourse) to blame them for being responsible for the climate/pollution.
A normal citizen goes on vacation once a year and maybe, maybe flies there and rich people do weekly jet flights.
Also now with the farming controversy, people eat meat once/twice a week maybe, highly processed, yet are to be blamed for the pollution of cows....while rich people eat that daily and in way meat raised in far more pollutive farms.
Tax people having more than 1 child,all problems solved
When I was young we had a jet and my brothers and I called it "The Coffin."
My mother asked, "Why do you children call it the coffin?"
We replied .... Because you can't stand up in either one.
We got a Gulfstream.
WEF came together with 1200 private jets in a time of video calls?! To tell US we should drive around as much.
I just hate poverty
I wonder why in this video there wasn't a word about shipping/maritime business. Shiping emissions are orders of magnitude greater than all these puny cars and private jets and laughable three tonnes per human per year. That was quite biased and weak journalism. You can do better, DW. Optimizing shipping industry, optimizing routes, investing in scrubbers and other cleaning technologies will have fastest and largest impact on the emissions issue.
As someone who grew up washing my clothes in a shower, and getting free school meals, I have absolutely no issue with it. This documentary clearly has a motive; and that's basically "rich people are evil people who are abusing the planet". Look, how many people a day take an Uber, when they could be using public transit? Add up all the global uber / taxi etc rides and it probably wouldn't make a dent in what these people are doing. And even if it does; i'm sure they're paying hefty "carbon-offsetting fees / taxes". Hech, all of us have a limited amount of time; if we can pay to save some of it, we all would. Every single one of us would.
Good points!
he needs to pay an extra 50% carbon tax.
Thank you so much for sharing this documentary! The extremely strange thing is that the people who go to the WEF are well known for flying in on their private jets. Yet they are the very ones that complain about climate change! They want everyone else to change their way of life yet they seem to think that they are exempt. Just like Africa. They don’t want them to have the same advantages that the western world has such as clean water electricity and heat and a/c but I’d bet they’d never consider giving up theirs. Such a strange world we are living in.
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and what difference is it gonna make if they fly public? dw should interview the polluters of the climate. cherry picking on random rich folks doesn't convince those who know the truth.
Most people forget that in Europe and especially in Germany we are very dependent on the luxury industry.
The Germans build the best and most expensive cars and luxury yachts. Where do we start, what are necessary
and unnecessary luxuries? For the workers e.g. in the shipyards it doesn't matter who pays the wages, even if it
comes to Russian oligarchs. The same is of course true for Maserati, Mercedes, RollsRoys, etc. Workers who
manufacture these vehicles.
The question is what would Germany be without this luxury industry?
Great content. Hope that guy's chauffeur arrived on time.
Maybe they edited out the conversation, " Please send a car to where my chauffeur is waiting, and remind him in person, to come to pick me up from Frankfurt on time. And escort him to my revised destination."
"Already done."
The man on the plane is unbelivably ignorant.
This indeed is so courageous, I admire the DW for this documentary. There have been many reports and carbon inequality database but saying it upfront and clearly, visually more important, is very important. In my research and teaching, these aspects feature prominently, I feel university students must be sensitised at all levels. But it remains an open secret which no one wants to bring to fore. It is pathetic, the level of hypocrisy and apathy. And the arrogance of the rich.
If everyone in the world lived like westerners we'd be a dessert by now... So are you a bad person for not living like someone in Botswana?
@@Googlium that’s the dumbest argument I’ve seen here. Nothing in the comment denied that we in the western / first/second world countries pollute the world too much on average. That’s true. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not allowed to criticize people who are polluting multiple times more than you although you are already polluting too much. The general infrastructure in our countries makes it basically impossible to get an sustainable carbon footprint if you don’t live in the woods without power and all this stuff. But you are still allowed to raise awareness and ask for change.
Rather than target the individuals I think you should focus on corporations, I am a car lover but I also manage a bamboo farm to offset my carbon emissions.
A lot of the rich are the biggest consumers, especially of electricity, which ends of driving the average price higher for the normie person out there.
The first thing that can be done is to put massive taxes for private jets, for cars with bigger engine that necessary for travel,engines should be quiet and use as less fuel as possible
Hmm. A luxury tax. Brilliant! Oh wait….Parker Brothers And others figured that idea out and included it on the Monopoly game decades ago. And it’s still a good idea. Some good ideas seem to have very long gestation periods.
Interesting stuff right there!!
this guy drinking his Fiji water and trying to defend himself is pretty hillarious
What's the problem with drinking water? Lol.
Thanks for the very good investigations DW!
Thanks a lot for watching and taking the time to comment :)
We should build those old French contraptions for these people again
Last year, there was agreement in UN about the climate change loss & damage penalty from rich countries to poor country. But then, Germany, one of the richest country in globe and in EU, as pictured in this documentary, still cannot even solve their own citizens's carbon inequality problem...
the rich are so ignorant. Incredible, even with money falling out of my pockets, I would think about my impact and at least admit to it, even if I would end up doing it anyway.
What most people in this comment section is avoiding to say is that if they were in the shoes of the wealthy instead of being middle class, they would also pollute as much as them, poor people do not pollute because they can’t afford to, but if they could afford to pollute they would do it, EVERYONE wants to have better living standards, everyone.
I disagree. I could easily afford flying much more, yet I dont, the only reason being the climate
Interesting. There is nothing like green vehicle technology, from a scientific point of view. Consider the total energy for minerals mining, processing, refining, manufacture & assembly of an electric car. The grid electricity to charge a Tesla in the U.S or even Germany (said nein to electricity from nuclear generation) is predominantly from blazing petroleum products or coal; latest plants are leaner, but nowhere near clean.
We are all adulterating the atmosphere, one stroke at a time, even you.
Climatic change is real & needs addressing with real solutions.
I'm suspicious of climate change . And I'll let God sort out financial injustice.
I believe that families who barely could afford to pay their bills and volunteer their time on how to contribute to the global climate should be rewarded. People like them deserve to thrive longer in life. 👍
May you kindly do a documentary on WEF, WHO and all these organizations we the ordinary citizens did not vote for but are dictating our lives as if our bodies belong to them. I recommend your documentaries to my colleagues and they enjoy how you present issues that affect us.
Huh? The WEF nor the WHO are governments, sir. They are just non-profit organization.
That is a biased proposal, based on the (wrong) assumption that those institutions exert their power over "your body", and that they lack the authority because "ordinary citizens didn't vote" the names of ruling bodies.
You also didn't vote for the Chair of your country's central bank, and still, it regulates what you can and can't do with your money (and other stuff), you didn't elect. Why? Because they are not holding positions in political organizations but in regulatory organizations/specialized agencies. They are not conducted to carry on political agendas but public policies, with clear, objective, and technical objectives.
What could be interesting, from a journalistic point of view, would be to assess how "ordinary citizens" from different political, economic, and age demographics, look at the role of regulating democracy, compliance with regulations, democratic participation, individual liberty/rights vs common good. That would be neat.
The fact that our cars are strictly limited on emissions and private jets have no limits on usage is a glaring example of how our system caters to the rich... Why does my car need thousands of dollars of expensive emissions equipment but this thing can burn hundreds of gallons per hour with zero emissions treatment? The same ridiculous laws imposed on us should be imposed on the rich equally
Leave taytay swif alone
I think it's a great idea putting a price on emissions.
why
In the USA in law school, we learn that you cannot, CANNOT, stop any American from traveling, and that includes airplanes, cars, etc
He better enjoy it because EVERYTHING for him and them are about to change. They don’t adapt well to change or pressure.
And who is gonna force him, you ?
@@Silver_Prussian Remember the French revolution?
@@k.k.8394 yeah i remember it, a bloody revolution by good for nothing fools who just like modern ignorent mases thought they are the real deal, that THEY will be the game changers. They utterly failed and accomplished nothing. Actualy no i lied they did do something right, their screw ups and revolution did allow a very smart man to rise to power who was deffenetly average height for the time.
Love the guy on the plane, he is my hero. Most environmentalist are anyway poor and bound to be jealous and behave like losers who cant even travel cattle class.
Eat the Rich