zerfuffle

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It says that the top 1% makes 140k USD....

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, I'm confused. So the history of the Ryukyu Islands is that they were claimed by China until the First Sino-Japanese War, at which point they fell to the Japanese. Then, after WW2, the US takes over jurisdiction of the islands as war reparations under the Treaty of San Francisco (which China, naturally, wasn't invited to and received basically nothing from).

So, today, the Americans have a bunch of military bases there, China claims a few small islands there, Japan claims the entire chain, and the people of the island themselves want independence.

Fuck, eh?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

yes but see Japan is good now ever since they got nuked into submission

except for that period where their economy was going to overtake the US and so we had to fuck the Yen sideways

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We are the top 1%.

What's unmentioned is that the top 1%, the top 2%, the top 5%, even the top 10% has a disproportionate impact on emissions. That group is made up mostly by the West, but also the rich elite in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, etc.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Top 1% does 16%, bottom 66% does 16%, middle 33% does 68%.

On a per-capita basis, the top 1% is 8x worse than the middle 33% and 66x worse than the bottom 66%.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fucking DolphinMath and HatsuneMiku on worldnews. How much IDF apologia can they spew? Am I just getting mad for no good reason?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It's a different definition of metropolitan area, I think. A lot of Beijing's area is extremely sparsely populated, moreso than Delhi's.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Emissions standards were enforced on coal power plants, cars were tightly regulated, and home energy was pushed towards gas (which burns with less particulate emissions) or electricity.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A democracy where people have a voice that the ruling class can choose to ignore. Hmm.

Democracy runs opposed to capitalism.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Comparing New Delhi (an area of 43km2) to the Beijing metropolitan area (16400km2)... Nice.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sounds like democracy doesn't benefit the people idk

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