Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, research shared exclusively with The Guardian reveals.

The tycoons include the Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the tech billionaires Bill Gates, Larry Page and Michael Dell, the inventor and social media company owner Elon Musk and the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim.

Analysis by Oxfam and US researchers of their luxury purchases, which include superyachts, private jets, cars, helicopters and palatial mansions, combined with the impact of their financial investments and shareholdings reveals that they account for almost 17m tonnes of CO2 and equivalent greenhouse gas emissions annually.

So, some of these billionaires offset their emissions with anti-climate-change projects. We all should be happy…

The Bezos Earth Fund was established with the largest philanthropic commitment ever to fight climate change and protect nature. The $10 billion grant commitment will be disbursed by 2030, the date by which the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved. We aim to harness the best of human ingenuity, adaptability, and collective action to create a future in which everyone can thrive.

Pollute and clean up…

Pollute and clean up…

Pollute and clean up…

This isn’t a solution. This is a sin and repent religious repeat…. Very worthy of pedophile priests doing confession.

The  details of the clean up can show that a lot of money is spent on feel-good futility, half-baked solutions and some efficient actions. 

So, where to now?

My personal calculations point to “whatever-we-do, 2032 will be the year of global warming hitting us with fury”. I could be wrong… 

We will have to “bunkerise” and we will blame others…

Meanwhile, the Americans have alluded to having a World War in 2027, to “stop the Chinese”… 

This will only add to the fury of global warming five years later… A “nuclear winter” plus the “trauma” of global warming won’t negate each other. This is why I use the world plus…

Whatever Trump and his successor do, will amount to fiddles one way or the other. Will sanity prevail?

On the side of cautious analysis, there has not been any human sanity in our civilisations since the Greeks 600BC.

We have survived though, thus the bet is that we will survived these “traumas”, but it will be harrowing for many, even for the rich…

Thank you…

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