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a photo of twin private jets belonging to her and her partner, travis scott, at a time of scorching heat waves and surging wildfire in the us. the joke didn't go down so well. note that the news about her 17 minute flight could have been completed in 40 minutes by car. the relationship between the super rich and climate change is one of our themes on made this week. also coming up is the way we calculate g d, p. fit for the modern age. my is unionization, the order of the day in the usa and giving a new life to laptops wants behind a rise and recycle to computers. this is made d w's business magazine. welcome to the program. allies can be unfair, can't it? you can try to do everything right for the environment. you can sought your waste. you can sell your car and try to live a sustainable life or to keep your impact on the climates to

a minimum. but at the same time, the world's richest men can blast themselves into space, creating more c, o. 2 in one round trip and the world's poorest people will, in their entire life times the global elite and their celebrity friends could perhaps be setting a better example at neuron jam reports. welcome to the filthy lives of the ultra rich. this is a world of helicopters, jets mansions and rockets cutting these people's emissions is the easiest wind for the climate. it comes at 0 cost to anyone except them, and well they can afford it. so just how dirty are the world's richest people? and how do we clean them up? answering the 1st question is tricky, because nobody is forced to report their own emissions. scientists take estimates of the carbon pollution from an activity or product and combine them with data

about how often you do or buy it. that's hard enough to get right for yourself, but when it comes to billionaires, this is even hiler, because you don't have that much information about them be at least borrows, worked out the carbon footprints of 20 billionaires in 2018. he had to work with what we had, we had to work with then billionaires who, who's lifestyle is i glamorize, who often appear in the media, who showed as show off their yards near private chance. that meant they ignored some of the richest people in asia. but in europe, in the us, they found plenty of material to keep them busy. take romana abramivitch, a russian oligarch, steele magnate, and former football club owner. his 162 meter long yard has 2 hello pads and kind of unnecessarily for the boat to swimming pools. powering this single ship with diesel makes up the bulk of his colossal carbon footprint. how about microsoft

founder bill gate? he's a billionaire who at least gets the problem avoiding a climate disaster. so we need green cement, green steel to bring the missions from all those areas down to 0. gates has written an entire book about avoiding disaster and to his credit, he doesn't own and mega yacht. but bill gates flew around the world with his private jets so often than in 2018. his emissions were the same as 500 americans. this millionaires, they are aware of the social capital aff, aff care me about the environment of buds. i don't see them doing anything about it, at least in their, in their personal behavior. it's not just celebrities who are the problem. inequality is falling between countries, but growing within them and in cities across the world,

the widening gap between the rich and the rest also applies to emissions. let's look at the top one percent of global earners. that somebody earning a yearly salary of about $109000.00. these people live in cities from miami to mom, buy, and they're responsible for one 5th of the growth in carbon pollution in the last 30 years. the shock lamp is at u. c. s. now about 50 percent off. humanity, anesha, nazareth of scientists studying emissions. inequality says it's not just about black styles. i, yes, in jasa. but a big problem is, you know, you really are eager influence to campaign donations and influence in general on the mass as yet. there are 2 ways this takes place. the 1st is full scale lobbying rich people of course money into preserving the status quo, which is working out pretty well for them. and society glamorous is the rich from

jeff bezos blasting into space to kim carnations. holidays were obsessed with their opulent lifestyles and often want them for ourselves. so how can we clean them up? the 1st answer is the most obvious. don't let the goober rich get so rich in the 1st place. this video isn't about to descend into a rant about capitalism, but even hard core idealogues admit the ultra rich, often avoid taxed and exploit loopholes in the system to grow even richer, by raising taxes, closing legal loopholes, and cracking down on tax havens policy makers could make it more costly for the wealthy to pollute. and in doing so, they'd raise money to invest in clean energy infrastructure. but bear in mind, it's not just the ultra ritual midway too much. the best example of this is flying . if you have stepped foot on a plane this year, you belong to the elite 2 to 4 percent of the population who flies in

a given year. and if you fly more than once a year, your carbon footprint is pretty much guaranteed to be incompatible with doing your fair share for a stable climate. one way to solve this is a carbon tax. raise the cost of flying to reflect the damage it does to the planet . sound simple, but it also makes find this thing that's already only accessible to a small group of people, even more elite. you would have to set of blanket carbon tax extremely high to deter the frequent flyers and business travelers. that same added cost would be felt much more by a middle class family. wealthiest, specifically, the one percent will always buy their way out of carbon, texas. just because that can, this is jeff and your sling a sustainability researcher who says we should focus on the super frequent flyers. people who for instance, take more than 12 flights a year. even though they are just one to some of the worst population of this

little group will account for more than half off all the asian emissions that the system is causing a year. one way to address this is to increase the cost of flying for every extra flight you take. this is known as a frequent fire levy. it would cut demand for air travel without pushing the activity further into the hands of the very richest, an idea everyone could get behind. right. in reality, we see a surprising support off of the lifestyle of very well, but it would be a mistake to focus solely on what rich people buy. because people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change there. unfortunately, the also in the most ideal position to help us mitigate climate change was danielson is the lead author of a study on what the richest, one percent can do to stop climate change. in the paper,

we sketch 5 different roles. the 1st one is what they do as a consumer, re broaden not tools to consider. what can you do as investors? because the more wealth and income you have, the more money you can invest in 2 companies, late to fossil fuel or a renewable energy reduction. because rich people have more influence within organizations, they can also lobby for change where they work. cleaning up the lifestyles of the rich is a clear cut win for the climate. but for the most part, the rich aren't going to just de carbonized themselves. policies that redistribute their wealth need to gain societal acceptance. recognizing that the wealthy have more power to stop climate change is the 1st step to tackling their outside pollution. not to be successful and make lots of money, isn't only the driving desire behind individual people, but also in tie. and nations for success is traditionally measured in gross

domestic product or g d p. it's basically the total value of all the goods and services a country produces, and it's proven to be a handy way to compare nations like alike. but it isn't without its flaws. does it really provide an accurate reading of a country's financial health? well, let's take a look. ah gross domestic product or g d, p is blind in one eye so to speak. but it's still considered the best measure of wealth that we have. it shows the value of all goods and services generated in one country each year, allowing for a direct comparison of nations. g d. p doesn't take account of factors like quality of life, happiness, or the environment. for a long time it was thought that growth brings prosperity, but critics say that's not necessarily the case. what's good for g d p isn't always

good for people on the planet. a car accident, they might increase g d p. the hospital and doctors might make money on giving treatment. an insurance company might pay for new car that gets manufactured every one profit except for the victim of the accident lying in hospital in pain and the environment. if an oil platform explodes, devastating marine life beaches have to be cleaned, cutting down the rain forest brings profit both cause g d p to rise, but they destroy nature and create huge cost. meanwhile, doing good, like helping the homeless or picking up trash in the park is not reflected in g d p . it only calculates goods and services traded on the market. so are there alternatives? yes, the gross national happiness index measures the population sense of well being. in baton, it is long guided state policy. other indices focused on human development and

social factors. there's also an index that incorporates aspects like a countries, environmental footprint and inequality. the so called national prosperity index is similar to g d, p. it measures 20 different economic, environmental and social components and converts them into monetary units. and that is the drawback of the other measurement systems. it's difficult to express happiness of social engagement in numbers. the things are often subjective and perceptions, varying from one country to another. so t t p is likely to be used for a while to come, even if it only sees half the story it seems the really our measurements for everything these days. there are indexes of happiness as you saw, confidence as well, and even job satisfaction. but you only have to look at the behavior of employees across the united states right now to see that their moods could be improved.

increasingly, by joining together to form unions to amplify their voices and coal for change, but their collective efforts are being resisted by some employers. starbucks has just been ordered to reinstate 7 workers who claims to have been sacked for preparing a union election on the unionization of the united states. soon me saw miss kander reports, a brand new and around the world, starbucks, a java jagger quenching coffee lovers. 3rd, at every corner, you'll find these cup, and that iconic logo pretty much everywhere in the us. but lately, starbucks is also getting a lot of attention for this that i would get when we want a new movement to union i. starbuck stores in america, lead by it's for re stuff and staff. it all started here in buffalo, new york,

at the starbucks workers united office. i had never in a 1000000 years. imagine that brief does, could have a union. but as i started thinking about it and started realizing, you know, i work so hard every single day, you know, typically 8 hour shift and barely making minimum wage. where this is a multi $1000000000.00 company. and i kind of hit me where i realized that starbucks could be doing a more for us. casey more is helping to lead national communications for the group . casey and her co organizer is new. starbucks wouldn't be thrilled with the union, but they didn't expect. what happened next. they alleged that the company sent in corporate union busters managers who tried to intimidate them, to cut ours, to close down stores and even fire people for minor infraction. starbucks told us the allegations are completely false, and this is what they said about union activity at their stores. we are listening and learning from the partners in the stores as we always do across the country

from the beginning. we've been clear in our belief that we are better together as partners without a union between us and that conviction has not changed. we respect our partners right to organize and are committed to following the n l r b process. that right to organize is certainly getting exercised. this office has become a nerve center for the more than 180 other starbuck stores around america choosing to unionize. we started getting workers from across the country, reaching out thing. you know, i was inspired by what you guys did. how can we do that too? and it's contagious. you know, it's not just starbucks workers anymore. it's amazon workers, it's trader joe's employees. it's apple employees, ari i. all of these people are saying, wait a minute, you know, there is massive income inequality in this country and organizing and building power for workers is actually a way where we can stand up and fight back and demand better. oh,

it's being called america's new labor movement. there has been union activity at all of these companies in recent months, according to the national labor relations board in the 1st 9 months of the year, the number of groups filing for unionization was off more than 56 percent compared to the same period last year so what is happening? labor experts like david madeline. tell us, the coven pandemic was a big factor. the survey american economy wasn't working very well for most workers . and then you had cobra, which really put those problems into stark relief workers. what considered essential, but they weren't paid more and initially have saved workplaces. and so workers really felt particularly vulnerable at the same time. and i saw the executives at their company's getting your record profits. so they are frustrated and ready to act. another factor having the most union friendly white house in decades and a crop of younger workers or demanding better conditions and pay. but is there

a doozy as an behind organizing sustainable? we went to meet janera tight. an attorney who truly knows both sides of the battle . she worked at the n l r b for 10 years, and now work with company as a labor and employment law partner at acreage. i think the jury of actually still out on whether this will be a new ways that we're seeing for years to come. if you look at millennials engines years, i think they're all very ambitious. and so the idea of being committed to working in one workplace for an extended career over time to the point where they could truly see a lot of the benefit of unionization, is still sort of out there as a question mark the end point in april amazon workers in

staten island, new york voted to form the company 1st union. it's been called a david and goliath story, but the amazon labor union and many other union have struggled to take the next step. their battle is less than a half over and they still need to negotiate a collective bargaining. and none of the sort of new waves have even succeeded at that yet. now minds you, in order for these workers to succeed, they're going to need tremendous grassroots pressure. but they're also going to need the support of a lot of public and of elected officials, including up to changing our laws to make it easier and more possible for them to change, to join unions and collect, live and bargain collectively. that hasn't stopped ryan brown, he's leading an organization called cause trying to form a union at the amazon warehouse, just outside raleigh, north carolina. he works on the main floor, putting together packages. when he's off shift,

he's organizing this is someone call me now, or usaa. you know, we went to the places we weren't connected law, it starts at $544.00. he and his co workers say they face on realistic targets, like sending off at least 80 packages in an hour and get far too little money for some here. just 1575 in our living wages. i would number one priority is that we work a hard grueling hours. we work on an honest job and we generate it so much. well, for jeff bezos, burdette wealth didn't none of that will trickle down so's the a working conditions. um, you see older workers who may be old enough to be one of my grandparents. they are expected to hit these unrealistic rates. if

amazon law wants to push them out the door, they will put them in a department that they know did so they won't be successful in amazon told us, their workers do receive competitive salaries and benefits. and this is what they told us about unions. our employees have the choice of whether or not to join a union. they always have as a company, we don't think unions are the best answer for our employees. our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making amazon a great place to work. making amazon a great place to work, that is something both sides can agree on, but how they get there. that's a different picture for the company. the best way forward for each worker is to stay union free for these workers, many of whom are black and brown. a union is the only way to demand better

conditions and pay for every one. amazon says that, so they want the associates to have a voice well, markers, collectively that is a voice is nothing more democratic then a union. the next step for ryan and cause is to gather enough signatures to qualify for a union election. it may be an uphill battle, but it's one they're ready to fight. now i'm thinking of getting a new computer. the problem is, or should i do with the old one? do i really want to add to the growing pile of electronic waste that grows with every new technological development in our, in 2014 humans produced 44000000 tons of the stuff and it's only risen since them we're expected to generate 75000000 tons of electronic waste in 2030,

but that doesn't have to be the case. enormous efforts are being made to keep our gadgets out of the garbage. old computers, laptops and cellphones worldwide. their numbers run into billions. what should we do? and the gadgets we rely on start letting us down, smash them up, all send them to the shredder after just a few years. this company has found a better solution at cycling. a s b in southwest in germany is specialized in this area. a common problem with old laptops and p c's is that the hard drive no longer has enough memory. maybe the fan is clogged with dust. here everything is renewed, including the video card on the ram. some $500000.00 computers get up cycled here

every year. most or then sold. theo daniel bixler is convinced the company is on to a winner. demand from bank, private and corporate customers has grown steadily dot fit until businesses can get a high performance computer at for 200 or 250 euros with a guarantee and an up to date operating systems. we offer windows 11 vom, and we are finding that increasing the attractiveness we've noticed in recent years that are more and more small companies that need 50 or a 100 hooters. how are buying refurbished models for financial reasons, asking of, or in some cases to be more sustainable to feel the equivalent. thanks to new parts, an up cycle computer is often more powerful and more durable than the original model. the average office p. c gets used for around 5 years. manufacturing that computer requires around 982 kilowatt hours of electricity. refurbishing extends the life of the computer by up to 4 and

a half years. on this up cycling requires only up to 2 percent of the original manufacturing energy. so 9 kilowatt hours. the c o 2 emissions are also much lower . the retail price is between 50 and 75 percent cheaper than buying an equivalent computer. new one of your, its largest computer dealers. the h g now also offers refurbished products. the group actually specializes in leasing i t equipment to companies, but 840000 computers were up cycled here last year in addition to that core business. so what led to the change? now you have earned with inflation and cost cutting measures, essentially a perfect storm, which is pushing companies to really look at costs on the $1.00 side, but also to actually, you know, find ways of getting devices you know, fast enough, especially when we look at the chips shortage up to south germany,

a delivery arrives at outdated equipment sent in by large corporate customers. a f b also leases out computers. but it mainly buys old equipment from companies, deletes all the data stored on them and then renews the software and hardware for this to. so those are our corporate customers on a consumer with then buy one of the refurbished notebooks for $150.00, or $215.00 euros pays a 1000 euros less in some cases than it would have cost new 3 or 4 years ago, maybe cost at other printers, cell phones and p. these are all result for a profit recycled components, or say we used in some cases these old service hosting find a new home in a computer center components that can no longer be up cycled a sent to companies that processed raw materials. here nothing comes to waste

and it's good to know these things don't have to end up on the scrap heap. that's all from this addition of made data. we use business magazine until next time with with

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