"isn't anywhere close to being all caused or controlled by under 3000 billionaires globally"
Nice attempt at a strawman argument.
To be a leading cause, it doesn't have to be all, or even nearly all. Over half would be more than adequate. I have studied lots of footprint research, and they all seem to agree that if you were to use just one data point to determine a person's ecological footprint, it would be their wealth/income, and it would generally be a pretty good indicator.
So, given that, and given that"
The wealthiest 1 percent of the world’s population now owns more than half of the world’s wealth," I think it's fair to say that the global wealthy have the majority of responsibility. But add to that the enormous control that the very richest have over corporations and governments, the responsibility suddenly skyrockets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/richest ... ealth.htmlBut if you want to keep handwaving and claiming you know better...just...because..., then knock yourselves out!
On the rest, I will just quote a former president, who when a fan cried: "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" Truman replied, "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's Hell."
But if moderators in their wisdom are no longer comfortable for inconvenient truths being clearly and forcefully articulated on these threads, they should not hesitate to banish me. But they should take out a few others with me!
And Ibon. I hope you were being ironic or sarcastic or something. Because otherwise that snarky comment was one of the most idiotic things you have said on these forums (that I have read, at least), and quite a departure from your generally thoughtful (if still often wrong
) comments here. Do you really think it's impossible for a vegan to also have a huge footprint in other ways? Multiple beyond-imaginably palatial homes, fleets of aircraft to ferry pets and footmen around...Even a vegan diet can, of course, be high impact if you try really really hard at it! Import every thing you eat from around the world and it's still gonna have a very big carbon footprint.