How the rich wreck the climate (and how to stop them)

Private jets. Mega-yachts. Helicopters. Mansions. The luxury lifestyles of the ultra-rich are pumping our air full of pollutants. So how do we clean them up – and why is progress so slow?

Credits
Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Video Editor: Nils Reinecke
Supervising editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Read more:
Billionaire emissions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15487733.2021.1949847
Carbon inequality: https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2022/03/0098-21_WIL_RIM_RAPPORT_A4.pdf
How the 1% can help: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y
Flights: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307779
Reducing demand: https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FinalDraft_Chapter05.pdf

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Billionaires
03:44 Carbon Inequality
05:19 Redistributing Wealth
06:30 Flying
09:18 Beyond consumption
10:59 Conclusion

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