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It seems to be more and more a #Greenwashing annual fair for rich kids toys, too, regarding there had been a panel named "responsible yachting"đ¤Ą
No, the #cop28 is obviously not the place, where the real problems of the ones with less money and most affected from #ClimateEmergency are taken serious.
Thank you for sharing this. Education as a public and societal good has always been the rhetoric, but we have to acknowledge that the system has always had, at its core, the goal of preserving the status of elites.
Once again, what's good for the elite is bad for everyone else.
The problem here isn't so much that different income levels have different outcomes. It's that the disparity in income is so great that it distorts *everything*.
"The wealthiest 10% are responsible for 1/2 of global CO2 emissions."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop21-richest-10-per-cent-produce-half-the-world-s-co2-emissions-a6756511.html
COP21: Richest 10 per cent âproduce half the worldâs CO2 emissionsâ
Oxfam report comes as 150 world leaders descend on Paris for the first day of a two-week UN climate change summitTom Bawden (The Independent)
âTo recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.â
â Oscar Wilde