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I'd argue industry is the primary culprit, but they ain't wrong that billionaires emit a massive amount of CO2 more that the average Joe/Jane
Who controls industry?
Ok yes, but my point is that the vast majority of pollution is happening in the execution of commerce, primarily shipping/transport, than is an individual or collective billionaire's leisure activities. Perhaps I just took the caption in a different light.
Billionaires and consumers worked together to burn all that oil. That's why we need to eat the rich AND ban cars.
Industry wouldn't be making anything if people weren't buying the goods and services they produce.
If you buy a huge firework that you use at a gender reveal party, who gets assigned the CO2 from the entire production pipeline of the item you bought? Is it the company that made the firework? Is it the company that dug up the raw materials that were refined to make the contents of the firework? Or is it you because you bought the firework? I'd say it should be you.
There are exceptions to this. For example, during COVID some of the airlines were flying empty planes around because they had deals with airports that to keep their slots in the system they had to be using them. In that case the company was polluting but no consumer was directly to blame. But, those are rare. And, you could argue that anybody who bought a flight on those airlines after that ended up paying them back for doing that and thus shares responsibility for it.
I think it should be counted an extra time for every entity involved. Everyone gets the blame. Everyone did bad stuff.