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I mean if international leaders meeting in person achieves even minute national changes in longterm climate policy then that private jet ride will have paid itself off many times over.


Then they should lead by example and buy carbon offsets from a reputable source.

AFAIK, Bill Gates is the only 1% er who does this.


Carbon offsets are largely bullshit financialized products.


Do they... all I see is evidence of more oil lobby entering the room. Oil lobby will never ever lobby for them losing long term profits, so be always extremely wary of their activities, I mean its not quantum physics rather just trivial 'follow the money' approach.

What I often see even with smaller national oil refineries are more in style of 'we lose this tiny battle and sell it 100x over via massive PR campaigns, while quietly pushing through this nefarious additional oil something something'.

Political leaders don't care, they get their cut of the pie now and next election cycle is up in the stars anyway and desperately hope they and their offsprings will have one of top positions in future world. Peasants be damned.

Now with these simple facts cleared, what heart-warming message do they have for the plebs?


Woah there, let's calm down a second. There is no need to advocate for the profitability and ethics in kidnapping private jets with billionaires on board. I'm sure if we just vote then we won't need violent revolution to avoid billions of people being displaced from climate change.


Tried that. It got us here. It's plane-snatching time.




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