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- Apr 2025
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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for - youtube - carbon inequality - Tax the Rich - Kevin Anderson - wealth2well - Deep Humanity - Deep Education
question - decarbonization - redistribution - is there any research with concrete decarbonization rates that are just across the entire class spectrum?
wealth2wellth - Deep Humanity Wealth2Wellth program advocates Deep education of the elites to voluntarily share their economic and carbon wealth with the 99%
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- Nov 2023
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.comLinkedIn1
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By chance I was reading Robert Goodin's 30 year old book on Green Political Theory yesterday - yes, how I get my kicks. A statement near the end of the book jumped out at me - and, I think, pertinent to the Netherlands now and the heat and noise in my home town, Oxford re. transport policy."...greens will have to impose tougher restraints on the rich than on the poor; they will have to let the poor continue to damage the environment in ways that they are prepared to prevent the rich from doing."
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for: carbon tax, tax the rich, carbon inequality
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- an obvious and logical strategy because
- the elites are few in number, but hold much wealth
- the disenfranchised are many in number but hold little wealth
- but the disenfranchised exist in larger numbers
- so when it comes to voting, they are a strategic cohort to win over
- this is in effect the same logic as the Paris Agreement and climate justice
- climate justice requires us to protect the poor and give them the remaining carbon budget whilst those who already have enough must cut back
- an obvious and logical strategy because
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