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wilson, the snow deterioration, gross must the end of a superpower. the collapse of the soviet union rushes more in ukraine. one year since the invasion began. we take a look back at the 4th and into the future. in the new slow brain. in february on t w t, i picked a feel out campus publishing houses in whole 300 dooley and back house is headed to frankfort with a staff member there traveling by private jet vince
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worn, hung, a packet in public transport is pretty gross. at the moment he's sharing a cabin with snotty nosed people, coughing everywhere. i avoid it as much as i can or zaden v as you're good. it's a short trip from vent hoffman to frankfurt. just about 500 kilometers. traveling by private jet may be convenient, but it certainly does the climate no favors. i care about climate change. i don't think about it much if everyone behaved like you and flu as often as you do done with it, then it wouldn't work. but luckily, the population has split into different groups, dime, part of the small fraction that can get away, but it doesn't all. private jets, fast cars. yeah. generally, the richer people are,
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the more they contribute to global warming in their lives the on up on, in the last few years, we've seen that one key element of being wealthy is how much it harms the planets. must 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. 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? about $4000.00 euros per hour, so there and back to hours will set you back $8000.00 euros. more and more rich people travel this way. the number of private jet flights in germany increased by 9
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percent within one year. don't you feel guilty living at the expense of others that are not, not really the case. i'm not stopping anyone from doing the same. others could do it, but they duct is that okay? for me it's okay for me and i don't think i'm actively humming anyway. if that were 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, dominy but carbon emissions are harmful to others. in fact, to all of us, a flight by private jet, amidst tons of greenhouse gases were already experiencing the consequences of climate change to date. after all, the climate crisis has long since arrived, fires, droughts, flood with increasing
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frequency in more and more places. if global warming is not slow down soon, large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable. glover dunwoody due to that, i believe that civilization as we know it would an info ma'am. certainly our idea of a humane society would be over social for soon 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. our own survival depends on it. on the sill, i seem to reach that target. we calculate that each person on the planet road is allotted 3 tons of c o. 2 emissions per year by mid century like poland, seal thoughtful, fulfill goldstein. so on average, each person's carbon footprint should be 3 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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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 mine, mine would julian dark 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
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julian backhouse from flying by private jet as often as he likes. can he contact? he goes by my chauffeur's waiting there. already done one, can you send him to find what mine was already done? he's on his way over of terrific up here to see you later. thank you. very few people can 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
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to put that into perspective, that's more than the $6100000000.00 tons produced by the entire poorer half of the world's population. ah, meanwhile, in the german town of xander in lower saxony of york line as cycling home from work, flights by private jet are inconceivable for the klein, family bicycle is the family's main means of transportation to 5. yeah, 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. her husband works as a cook in a hospital. combined the coins net monthly income, total of about $2600.00 euros. that puts them in the bracket of lower middle class
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. come on, come ear headphones. see later 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 by pike in that time they're tight but didn't forgotten it. it's 10 kilometers each way. her diesel car emits 0.005 tons or 5 kilograms of c o. 2 as era 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
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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. my, my mostly it eats into our vacation budget than alice toy of, of yet. this was and so that visiting auntie is like going on vacation. she's got a huge cool with alley the lights above that we still have to drive them out. that cost money to ortiz driving a luxury for you? yeah. it's become one for ah, we have on people on tighter budgets tend to pull the, the environment less flu
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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 walks special about driving a maserati is the fascination for this car, nasal women's arts, i guess you could call me an old petrol head on. so it's all fun driving these vehicles in my free time is a real joint for me for fall in modified sites for many years. hi, not boil. worked as an engineer for a large car company. most moratti's got a lot of gas lu
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. ready 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 groove stops out a car museum. lawyer i set up with more new i we hung him at the museum, has 2 floors. snowfall middle of it and motorcycles are on the middle floor that are a few italian models and some majorities mixed in this region. driving
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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 does does to linda 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 because my paints have very clear picture on out non pushing close boot is yes. oh. but would they give up their joy rights to stop climate change? yeah, my were in a climate crisis and you drive for fun at a mid c o 2 as a hobby. does it make you think twice? laugh bank life. that office is not that not at all. which boggling. and i'll tell you why. the oldest, the, the of the cars we drive,
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i mean classic house vintage comes up. they are more than 30 years old. already. it was in of thought the shower 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 in oscar for handling the patterns. familiar, every one can see the problem, but not in their own behavior. are strict laws. the only solution immediately garalia or if we are radically increased regulations and plan. so they'll only be met with resistance because it will be counter productive out asking, thought by the lord it, because the people who can afford it will say, no, we refuse to hurt us infants. you can't do this to us. i'm often does. people aren't willing to be deprived of what they've, what decades to a change on thought niemen, not even for the climate debate, is definitely not funny. if should some people be allowed to pollute the planet more than others, because everyone must live with the consequences of the climate crisis. the max he
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out does, does is of the, the stove, whether they are allowed to do it is a moral and ethical question which can be disco, the hours and hours to come and see how long it is. but it doesn't actually help the matter comes on for the fact is that's the way it is when is vital, why? fuck this does this. so if i miss very much and we all cut back to reduce our carbon footprint. i, i'm here the focus bullish. that's of course a fair 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 can tell you quite frankly, no, i'm not prepared to do that. others kind of a lot of people here opposed the idea of cut backs or bands. they paid their hopes on something else. the vulcan tiffany technology should, we must develop climate friendly technology and climate friendly energy as quickly
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as possible. and again, as, as in relying on takeover, making sacrifices quite exactly god's glory material issues, of course is it's very convenient to say that miracle technology will be here one day table that way we can carry on sleeping at night and continue flying and going on cruises and whatnot, but we're lying to ourselves. huh. yeah. to luke one, fish in to touch it. c o 2 emissions. nita fall dramatically waiting for new technologies will take too long. of course, rich people are not the only ones polluting the environment. but marty, you are yes, please. people with low 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
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their lifestyle. eating habits and house monsoon. oh, epis foils, anita quality refurbished. no. i had some type of hating fossil homes. com, you know, yes. look flights within europe? none as well. again, this is says we have a carbon footprint of 6.99 tons of c o 2 on there, the german average is 10.78 tons. your new sort of bit below that table. $6.00 tons of c o 2 per person. that puts them well below the german average, but they're still over the $310.00 limit that would be necessary to achieve the climate targets. one big point working against them is their gas heating. yet then mr. we would need to refurbish the house to save energy in a new scholars,
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him or in a garage or the new owner, thermal retrofitting cavity wall insulation. hold on them all gas renovating and insulating the roof. is that realistic? no, no, no. what does it cost a lot of and 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 wall? that was when to look to heat, more in winter than people in a modern house owner. the only way to substantially cut their carbon emissions would be to invest money. they simply don't have you'll go south, there's no limit to how much you can save, understand. i think we've basically reached it for duster some small good anymore caught soon. we couldn't do anything any more. thus, mon uh we would lose what little quality of life we have. disposition,
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basil name is quality. tommy alcohol for law declines. just don't have the means to invest more in climate protection. they would need support to achieve the 3 ton target invoice. the saga my i think it's pretty unfair that we have to scrimp and save while others shall out more and more because they can afford to move. isaiah scared of her. i don't think it's rotten finished. mission. ordinal. these figures underscore her point. while the average german emits about 11 tons of greenhouse gases per year, 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,
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flights and environmentally harmful investments. in the ellipse near huffman, 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. are law motivated for toilet more. no one will have individual apartments all over the world. his miami beach is stumble to me in but to me, georgia and so on. ah, when the lights are on, we thought we could do with one and spin to an invoice for owner an apartment. and my yorker turned into a boat and barcelona would involve so now you all the company yard here in
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barcelona is both a hotel and an office for him. stefan garrett is a multi millionaire. he made his fortune in the tourism industry. graham, he all can patch up an 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 emissions of well over 100 tons per year, which may open taurus most terrorism is my business, which 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 by, but if you need to travel for your job, we're going to keep everything running smoothly. often sort of be crazy not to
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lessen vans 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 does climate change play when you make an investment decision came up under moon bassinet? really far you went into the tricky question. really should be the bones. nicole, we have a smile, a bit at that, or we see that it's from course we consider multi r one, but probably not. and the way you would think him talk is titian by you take great, interested in making investments in the tourism sector in places where we think climate change could benefit us once put in palm trees and the baltic coast eisen and missionary san k, or say that so it may be one day long we'll it certainly gotten warmer and this target was i another off invoice. well, more give or to sub this or we keep an eye on it at the all fall, but only in deciding where to invest in the so we can take advantage of climate change or simply ma, bundled scene, colonel tourism,
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or saving the climate. it's a conflict of interest. gerhard can't deny. he highlights some of his projects, installing solar panels antennas, courts, or sustainably renovating a few hotels. but even he knows that won't be enough. in its mission. we're not stupid. i do think about what i could do better summer and how to prevent this impending catastrophe dizzy contest what i can do, what everyone can do 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. this is what's going to happen. and we are snobbish. i need someone to do what i do as a consultant, to say here is what we need to do. ask for one thing. that's what i'm missing one for english, torn. when does fail me? there certainly is one idea, but it wouldn't come cheap for people like stefan gearhart image. correct? good. i told them every person gets an allowance of 3 tons of c o 2 emissions per
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year from also see if you need to use more. you have to buy it or not a shift. there were people who don't really need this amount any way, could sell part of it and earn a little extra healthy him love billionaire would have to buy an extra $100.00 tons per year. the else's filled upon and ppo the so co from is this reasonable. does it border on expropriation douglas onto desk in mind for the greater good half to take precedence an idea, but the compromise is right there with my wealth. i can buy the freedom to emit 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 hold that? how they exceed the situation?
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fisher can all say to any camry you put me in front of. we are too light. the situation is serious. if we reach the tipping point and the climate crises spirals out of control on me, won't just be a question of a slightly lower quality of life. we're talking about a real danger to human life. people will lose their lives, they will be drowned. people will no longer be able to live as they do today. they'll will be was, these are all realistic scenarios. this dishes pub x assessment as clear. will he introduces c o 2 cap for every one? he doesn't want to go that far. canceled him. 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?
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a seo tools the puddle production as a home and product is not manufactured in climate friendly waves have to become more expensive. it's year. then they will change dantzler path that europe as a whole is taking, and germany as to a hope argued and in large from all good m as a study, it's a question of quality. then 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 cap, her person up that's. that's what in also, so societies, we solve the question of inequality not by prohibiting prosperity work, all the acquisition of welfare, but by taxation apples a lot rid restoril. 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? is it ambitious and demanding? i can't swear that we will succeed, but we definitely can succeed as good. yet,
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even ha begs own expert counsel warns that the measure is taken so far are inadequate. and in equality when it comes to carbon emissions will only get worse. ah, 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 in the same time from around $1300.00 tons. to more than $2300.00 tons per person. 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 could
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doubtless, many people will live many generations after us. and i think they should have a good life to did. he said now who does li marble? it's not just about what is fair, but what is necessary? you can, we can only do it every one joins in if 10 percent decide not to. there's no point in us doing it. 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, this battle cannot be won. because india and then the most common birds are the ones that are at one that just
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disappeared completely. they cite the survival, thousands of animal species on the indian subcontinent. conservationists are committed to saving all species from the red river dolphin to the common sparrow. he took in 30 minutes on d w. o. how many push it out in the world right now? the climate change, if any, off the story. this is my flex, the way from just one week. how much work can really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with
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