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While all of us who live in "developed" countries drive climate change and overshoot, it's the billionaire class that is primarily responsible. The private jets of just 23 billionaires emit an average of 2,074 tons of carbon a year — equivalent to 300 years’ worth of emissions for the average person — or 2,000 years’ worth for someone in the global poorest 50 percent. Even more destructive, 40 percent of the billionaire investments are in the industries of oil, mining, shipping, and cement. Humanity has a deep-seated behavioral problem. Unfortunately, I don't see either granting nature rights or a change of heart on the horizon. Multiple tipping points are surpassed, and the plan being executed in the US is the round up of brown people and the build out of forced labor in prison camps.

What seems obvious to you and me is rare knowledge and perspective.

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