1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks

Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by diminoten on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:22PM (#18972045)

This is a silly and pointless conversation. The cost to the environment for 1500 jets once compared to the political improvements that could result is a drop in the bucket.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:08AM (#18977285)

When those "political improvements" inevitably end up being a further continuation of the unsustainable capitalism status quo, I would rather they not try to improve anything.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by diminoten on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:22PM (#18983108)

I guess you don't live near sea-level, then.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by KozmoNau7 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:45AM (#18987843)

I do in fact live in a city on the coast, the highest point in the entire urban area is ~35m above sea level.

So I am extremely conscious of what the effects of climate change will mean for me, and for anyone living similarly close to the sea and at sea-level.

Which is exactly why I don't think it matters what a bunch of stupendously wealthy capitalists can come up with. We need widespread systematic change, and it needs to come from the people, not the so-called elite. As has been shown before, the ideas and initiatives of the elite are very often explicitly harmful to the general population.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by diminoten on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:52AM (#18990362)

You realize that these are elected officials meeting in Davos right? As in, as literally as can be, "the people".

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by KozmoNau7 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:14PM (#18991920)

Meeting with Titans of industry and other high-end capitalists. It's an old boys club, patting each other on the back, doing favors.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by diminoten on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:31PM (#18994124)

So you want policy makers to not understand what they're making policy on?

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by KozmoNau7 on Friday January 25, 2019 @07:08AM (#18997297)

I want them to listen to the whole people, not just the elite.

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