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w t . i take to fill out a campus publishing houses and whole 3 a divide. by julian backhouse is headed to frankfort with his staff member. they're traveling by private jet fins warned, hung up hawkins. public transport is pretty gross. at the moment you sharing a cabin with snotty nose people coughing every waka, i avoid it as much as i can. so zaden via your gate. it's a short trip from vent hoffman to frankfort. just about 500 kilometers. traveling by private jet may be convenient, but it certainly does the climate no favors.
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i care about climate change. i don't think about it much. if everyone behaved like you and flew as often as you do done with it, then it wouldn't work. but luckily the population is split into different groups. dime, part of the small fraction that can get away, but it doesn't own private jets fast cars. yeah, it's generally the richer people are, the more they contribute to global warming in their lives. the od up in the last few years, we've seen that one key element of being wealthy is how much it harms the planet to q. much it how much longer can we afford the indulgent lifestyle of the rich i'm just reading the article about you and manager magazine. very cool. congratulations.
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julian backhouse is a publisher of finance and business magazines. today he's going to the frankfurt book fair. the flight takes about an hour. what's the flight cost? over about $4000.00 euros per hour. so there and back to hours will set you back 8000 euros more and more rich people travel this way. the number of private jet flights and germany increased by 9 percent within one year. don't you feel guilty living at the expense of others on that? i mean, that's not really the case. i'm not stopping anyone from doing the same. others could do it, but they don't is that okay? for me it's okay for me and i don't think i'm actively harming anyone. if that was the case, i'd probably think about it more often. but so far, i haven't seen how i'm deliberately or actively harming anyone done so.
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but carbon emissions are harmful to others. in fact, to all of us, a flight by private jet, amid tons of greenhouse gases, were already experiencing the consequences of climate change to day. after all, the climate crisis has long since arrived. fires, droughts, floods with increasing frequency in more and more places. if global warming is not slow down soon, large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable. glover, done variety to that. i believe that civilization as we know it would an of the info glam. certainly our idea of a humane society would be over social 1st in professor hands. you are him. shane hoover is one of the most renowned climate researchers in the world. his findings are simple and unequivocal. humans must severely restrict c o 2 emissions.
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our own survival depends on it. on the cell, i sing to reach that target. we calculate that each person on the planet rock is allotted 3 tons of c o, 2 emissions per year by mid century, like poland, seal thoughtful for finkelstein. so on average, each person's carbon footprint should be 3 tons of carbon dioxide per year. this short trip is responsible for 3 tons of emissions. in theory, julian backhouse has used up his entire year c o. 2 allowance with this flight alone and afraid i have some bad news due to heavy rain and it goes back on because the runway is relatively short. we've decided to fly to frankfurt. mind,
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mind would julian doc house cut down on flights and accept a c o 2 cap? that's the same for every one. i think restrictions like that of pointless. we live in a world that affords us a certain abundance. i think everyone should have the right to enjoy that all get out of the loop. and he does have that right. no one is stopping julian backhouse from flying by private jet as often as he likes. can you contact? take us back, my chauffeur's waiting. there. already done one. can you send him to fine for mine? already done. he's on his way over. what terrific up. oh good. see you later. thank you. very few people can
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afford private jets or other luxuries which are all to the climate. to these few people make a big difference data shows that the richest one percent of the world's population, amid extremely high amounts of greenhouse gases. $8500000000.00 tons per year. to put that into perspective, that's more than the 6 point. 1000000000 tons produced by the entire poor, half of the world's population. ah, meanwhile, in the germantown of xander, in lower saxony, if you like line is cycling home from work, flights by private jet, are inconceivable for the klein, family bicycle is the family's main means of transportation. mm. 5. yeah,
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we don't want to use our car too much fuel prices are really high and we're thinking about the environment. oh, she has to leave soon to take her daughter to choir practice. emma time to go. 7 her husband works as a cook in a hospital, combined the coins net monthly income total of about 2600 euros. that puts them in the bracket of lower middle class, come on camera, but from the letter that money has always been tied for the klein's. now that prices keep rising, it's becoming a real problem. taking their daughter to choir practice is one of the rare occasions when they use their car does mandatory drive to it because emma can't manage it, but i can that time they're tight but didn't forgotten it. it's 10 kilometers each
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way. her diesel car emits 0.005 tons or 5 kilograms of c o. $2.00 and 0, klein would be able to drive her daughter to choir practice $600.00 times before she equal the carbon footprint of a short trip in a private jet. but given the high fuel prices, it's unlikely to come to that the last toys diesel is expensive. it let me spend more on that and there's less left over for food and clothing. i vinegar. we have to cut back on other things as well. absolutely, man wise, mostly it eats into our vacation budget, but alas, toy of, of yet lisa, so that visiting auntie is like going on vacation. she's got a huge pool with alley, the lights above that we still have to drive them out. that cost money to
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ortiz driving a luxury for you? yeah. it's become one for ah, tough you have on people on tighter budgets tend to pull the, the environment less ah, on the other side of germany, nearby. right. members of the german maserati club are meeting up to go for a drive. money seems to be no object here. even in these costly time it is under mama's ought to fall. if walk special about driving a maserati is the fascination for this car naval women's arcs,
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i guess you could call me an old petrol head on it. it's all fun driving these vehicles in my free time is a real joy for me. for falling in mine of hard thought. for many years hina boyle worked as an engineer for a large car company, most muzzle rowdies cause a lot of gas. blue . on this weekend, trip alone, i never, oil will produce 0.3 tons of c o. 2. theoretically, that would equal 110th of his annual c o. 2 allowance just for this one weekend. the group stops at a car museum. so i set up with
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more. i me humming the museum has 2 floors. nope. either middle of it or motorcycles, or on the middle floor. i got a few italian models and some majorities mixed in its visual driving a maserati or saving the climate for the people here, it's a hard overhead decision. the di pressing is the problem of climate change for you . it does, does. for glinda schema problem of climate change is certainly very pressing. there's no question about that. the scientific evidence we've seen over the last 10 to 15 years. my paints have very clear picture on out non pushing, close boot. yes
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. oh. but would they give up their joy rights to stop climate change? yeah, we're in a climate crisis and you try for fun at a mid c o 2 as a hobby. it doesn't make you think twice last bank by the office is not that, not at all. which boggling. and i'll tell you why. the oldest the, the of the cars we drive about. i mean classic house vintage comes up. they are more than 30 years old already. it has in of thought visual there until it is a fog florida. they make up a tiny percentage of all the cars that have registered in germany or some food losses. and also before handling the patterns familiar, every one can see the problem, but not in their own behavior. are strict laws, the only solution immediately go leo. and if we are radically increase regulations and plans, holden, so they'll only be met with resistance because it will be counter productive auto
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skiing. thought by the lord that he caused the people who can afford it will say no, we refuse to hold us infants. you can't do this to us. mm hm. often does. people aren't willing to be deprived to what they've, what decades to a change. i thought name and not even for the climate debate is definitely not funny. just said, some people be allowed to pollute the planet more than others, because every one must live with the consequences of the climate crisis. the max he out does, does is of the, the stove, whether they are allowed to do it is a moral and ethical question which can be discussed the hours and hours to come on there longer disco, but he doesn't actually help the matter comes on for the fact is, that's the way it is when it's vital, why fucked is does this. so if i miss, i mean i should, we all cut back to reduce our carbon footprint. i am here. the fog is bullish. that's a coast fan question about, but for me to actually say, i'll get rid of my vintage car to do something for the environment. clean out. so i
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can tell you quite frankly, no, i'm not prepared to do that. it's kind of a lot of people here opposed the idea of cut backs or band. they paid their hopes on something else that often personally technology should we must develop climate friendly technology and climate friendly energy as quickly as possible internet, as, as relying on takeover, making sacrifices exactly god's glory material issues. this of course is it's very convenient to say that miracle technology will be here one day did will that way we can carry on sleeping at night and continue flying and going on cruises and whatnot . but we're lying to ourselves, jada luke lung, fission to touch it. c o 2 emissions nieta fall dramatically, waiting for new technologies will take too long. of course, rich people are not the only ones polluting the environment. what's marty?
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your yesterday's. people with lower incomes are especially feeling the rising energy prices. the klein's have turned down their heating, and they're curious about their carbon footprint. they punch some information into an online seo to calculator to work it out. they answer various questions about their lifestyle eating habits and house m o m. paul's, anita quality refurbished. no. i had some type of hating for fossil homes . cow. yeah. yes. luc flights within europe. none other again, this is as we have a carbon footprint of 6.99 tons of c o 2. under the german average is 10.78 tons your new sort of bit below that table.
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6.99 tons of c o. 2 per person that puts them well below the german average, but they're still over the 3 time limit that would be necessary to achieve the climate targets. one bed point working against them is their gas heating. yet then mr. we would need to refurbish the house to save energy in a new sparkle. it's m o n a. get it on your own or thermal retrofitting cavity wall insulation. hold on them, all gas renovating and insulating the roof. is that realistic? boy? no, no. what does it cost a lot of money. it may not look like it, but the house is poorly insulated. the windows are from the 19 seventies and the walling is more than 100 years old. was the monthly notice when you touched the walls at once? and only to heat more in winter than people in a modern house. the only way to substantially cut their carbon emissions
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would be to invest money. they simply don't have but you'll go to south. there's a limit to how much you can save, understand. i think we've basically reached it off for duster since my good anymore caught soon. we couldn't do anything any more. does man, uh we would lose what little quality of life we have does bassoon, bussey only missed quality, tommy out know, fall off the klein's just don't have the means to invest more in climate protection . they would need support to achieve the 3 ton target. little was a saga my, i think it's pretty unfair that we have to scrimp and save while others shell out more and more because they can afford to move. are you scared of her? i don't think it's run finish nation. ordinal. these figures underscore her point. while the average german emits about 11 tons of greenhouse gases per year,
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the wealthy produce a great deal more millionaires each image more than $100.00 tons per year. the very richest people on the planet, a small group of global multi millionaires, are responsible for much higher emissions. people with a net worth of more than $20000000.00 euros produce an average of $2300.00 tons of greenhouse gases per year, with their yachts villas, flights, and environmentally harmful investments. in the ellipse near hut money in the last few years, we've seen that one key element of being wealthy is how much it harms the planet to chemistry traders. this marina barcelona is a meeting place for the ultra wealthy. stefan gearhart has a business appointment. here he travels a lot and flies frequently, his company's own hotels and apartments all over the world.
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on law debate for toilet warner, one will have individual apartments all over the world, his miami beach, istanbul, to me in but to me, georgia and so on. ah, when so i thought we thought we could do with one in spain to an invoice. paula: i need an appointment in may. yorker turned into a boat and barcelona would in both cello and are you or the company yard here in barcelona, is both a hotel and an office for him. stefan garrett is a multi millionaire. he made his fortune in the tourism industry. i'm . he all can patch up and only fly, otherwise it gets too hot. the captain always said, certainly he'll get hard is away on business trips. most of the time he flies hundreds of thousands of kilometers per year. that alone results in c o. 2
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emissions of well over $100.00 tons per year. very often, taurus most terrorism is my business. i work in the industry that makes its money from people traveling, thought. of course you can cut back if a trip isn't necessary for, but if you need to travel for your job would like to keep everything running smoothly. lovins will be crazy not to lessen bonds in this mr. torn. what is necessary for the job is obvious for him. climate change please an interesting role than his sector. vehicle is what role just climate change play when you make an investment decision? lavender, moon, business, really your finances tricky question really should be of the bones. nicole had a smile, a bit of that already. does it from of course we consider one but probably not. and the way you would think him talk esthetician boys, we take great,
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interested in making investments in the tourism sector in places where we think climate change could benefit us once put in palm trees on the baltic coast eisen and michelle, we say, okay, or say that so it may be one day long wheel. it's certainly gotten warmer in las vegas was i number off invoice. well more give all this up, this, or we keep an eye on it at all fall. but only in deciding where to invest in the so we can take advantage of climate change was tim kalima, bundled scene kernan, tourism, or saving the climate. it's a conflict of interest gearhart can't deny. he highlights some of his projects, installing solar panels antennas, courts, or sustainably renovating a few hotels. but he been, he knows that won't be enough in the earth's, this is not stupid. i do think about what i could do better summer and had to prevent this impending catastrophe dizzy curtis. what i can do, what everyone can do for a summer, but if i don't know what to do, i'm glad it would be helpful if someone said more than just one that this is what's
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going to happen under service. i need someone to do what i do as a consultant, to say here is what we need to do. ask everyone to know. that's what i'm missing. one for him was torn. when does fail me? there certainly is one idea, but it wouldn't come cheap for people like stefan gearhart. ah, the damage correct. but i told them every person gets an allowance of 3 tons of c o 2 emissions per year for most, especially if you need to use more, you have to buy it or not a shift though, for people who don't really need this amount any way, could sell part of it and earn a little extra for him to sell. a billionaire would have to buy an extra $100.00 tons per year, feel safe from the thought employer, the tacoma. is this reasonable? does it border on expropriation douglas onto desk in mind for the greater good has to take precedence? an idea, but the compromise is right there with my wealth. i can buy the freedom to emit
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more carbon yield seals, what i have to pay for it. i don't just get it for free stuff is the woman killed dish bicola. germany's ministry for economic affairs is now also responsible for climate action. how does minister all that, how they exceed the situation? the shock and i'll say to any camry you put me in front of we are to lie to the situation is serious. if we reached the tipping point and the climate crises spirals out of control room, he won't just be a question of his slightly lower quality of life. we're talking about a real danger to human life. people will lose their lives, they will be drown. people will no longer be able to live as they do today. they'll will be was, these are all realistic scenarios here. this dishes pub x assessment is clear. will he introduces c o 2 cap for every one?
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he doesn't want to go that far, consultant, i'm not focused on the question of individual caps and the statistics right now. i'm looking at the concrete matches i can achieve is through renewable energy retrofitting buildings. you name it or is on the, on humans. of course, all of these measures are necessary, but without wealthy people making major cutbacks, we will never be able to reduce carbon emissions, enough be void and cedar. and what's your plan to get the rich to a metal, a, c, o 2? the puzzle production as a home and product is not manufactured in climate friendly ways. have to become more expensive. it's year. then they will change that the path that europe as a whole is taking and germany is to i hope our new term didn't board for all good. so i did a question of equality if we have a limited amount of c o 2 we can emit if we take the climate target seriously than it should be distributed fairly, that means a clap, her person up griffith hawk in all social societies,
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we solve the question of inequality not by prohibiting prosperity work all the acquisition of wealth or wrong, but by taxation apples on the display. but up until now, taxes have not deterred the rich from living their lives of luxury. is it possible we won't succeed in tackling the climate crisis says it's ambitious and demanding. i can't swear that we will succeed, but we definitely can succeed as good. yet even hob eggs own expert council warns that the measure is taken so far are inadequate and inequality when it comes to carbon emissions will only get worse. while the carbon footprint of most middle class people in the world has stayed about the same for the last 30 years, the emissions of multi millionaires, the richest 0.01 percent in the world has almost doubled the same time from around $1300.00 tons to more than $2300.00 tons per person.
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ah, still most politicians shy away from raining in the rich and yet not doing so restrict the lives of so many more people as kicked out a little if many generations after us. and i think they should have good life to the desired law. who go to sleep, marvel? mm. it's not just about what is fair, but what is necessary? you can, we can only because if everyone joins in if 10 percent decide not to there's no point in us doing it or they're the ones destroying things. of course, we all have to fight climate change together. but if the rich don't do their part,
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