Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
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Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#2Interesting he has a book on climate change coming out and is doing this? Obviously we don't know his level of involvement with cascade
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#3> Gates is one of the world’s biggest “super-emitters” due to his regular private jet travel.
Is this behaviour net-negative for climate is the actual question, in my opinion. This one is much harder to answer than compiling a list of his trips and summing up estimated emissions.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#4> Gates is one of the world’s biggest “super-emitters” due to his regular private jet travel. Is this behaviour net-negative for climate is the actual question, in my opinion. This one is much harder to answer than compiling a list of his trips and summing up estimated emissions.
Personal emissions are only responsible for a small portion of total emissions regardless of how rich the individual is. There are a small set of companies doing most of the damage. Attacking individuals for their emissions continues an oil company - driven personal responsibility frame that stops us from solving the problems.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#5Interesting he has a book on climate change coming out and is doing this? Obviously we don't know his level of involvement with cascade
Going after individuals is part of framing by the oil companies to make us blame each other, instead of targeting the small number of huge companies responsible for the majority of global emissions.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#6So Bill Gates is doing business with a firm that’s supporting fascism in the US. Nice.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#7Interesting he has a book on climate change coming out and is doing this? Obviously we don't know his level of involvement with cascade
Going after individuals is part of framing by the oil companies to make us blame each other, instead of targeting the small number of huge companies responsible for the majority of global emissions.
we,re all complicit
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#8So Bill Gates is doing business with a firm that’s supporting fascism in the US. Nice.
The firm that manages his money is. Gates himself might not even be aware of this. Managing billions is not like opening an app and checking your back account.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going after individuals is part of framing by the oil companies to make us blame each other, instead of targeting the small number of huge companies responsible for the majority of global emissions.
we,re all complicit
Repeating that makes it harder to fight climate change. We are not all complicit, most of us as individuals are limited by the systems around us. Those who have actual power in the system are the ones who need pressure. If you pressure everyone to change every little thing about their life, they burn out and stop caring.
Re: Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet firm
#10> Gates is one of the world’s biggest “super-emitters” due to his regular private jet travel. Is this behaviour net-negative for climate is the actual question, in my opinion. This one is much harder to answer than compiling a list of his trips and summing up estimated emissions.
Personal emissions are only responsible for a small portion of total emissions regardless of how rich the individual is. There are a small set of companies doing most of the damage. Attacking individuals for their emissions continues an oil company - driven personal responsibility frame that stops us from solving the problems.
I don't understand this argument. Do these corporations exist in a vacuum? We use their products and services. They don't just emit co2 for the fun of it. No, we're not all individually responsible alone. We're all responsible together.