People driving cars are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires and their private jet usage. They can afford any price. More expensive fuel only affects poor people.
Poor people are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires per capita.
But not in total. There are much more poor people than billionaires, and even if each billionaire produces 50 000x the emmisions that a poor person does, all in all the emmissions of poor people are quite relevant too.
(From an equality standpoint obviously billionaires should be emmission-capped or taxed to the point that they aren’t billionaires anymore, there’s no question about that. But poor people’s emmissions are still significant and more than relevant to the climate.)
True but The climate doesn’t care about equality, only emissions.
Higher oil prices also drive electric adoption and overall less consumption as general retail prices rise to reflect transportation costs. Its hard to call deprivation a good thing because people suffer, but if it reduces consumption and waste of resources it is a net benefit for sustainability, just not a politically desirable method.
People driving cars are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires and their private jet usage. They can afford any price. More expensive fuel only affects poor people.
Poor people are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires per capita.
But not in total. There are much more poor people than billionaires, and even if each billionaire produces 50 000x the emmisions that a poor person does, all in all the emmissions of poor people are quite relevant too.
(From an equality standpoint obviously billionaires should be emmission-capped or taxed to the point that they aren’t billionaires anymore, there’s no question about that. But poor people’s emmissions are still significant and more than relevant to the climate.)
True but The climate doesn’t care about equality, only emissions.
Higher oil prices also drive electric adoption and overall less consumption as general retail prices rise to reflect transportation costs. Its hard to call deprivation a good thing because people suffer, but if it reduces consumption and waste of resources it is a net benefit for sustainability, just not a politically desirable method.