An Evening with Rebecca Solnit: An Energizing Case for Hope About the Climate
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
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The Importance of Being Rich
One of the things I love, and we keep talking about ministry for the future, it's a great book. One of the great things about it is they decide billionaires are a threat to the climate and eliminate them. The poorest 50% of humanity produces about the same amount of carbon emissions as the richest 1% of humanity. You literally decentralize power if you no longer have these corporations profiting hugely off power that centralized where fossil fuel is produced and controlled. And so their failure of imagination drives their decisions and their money makes their decisions influential,. which is why billionaires are a climate problem.
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