m on Nostr: "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously ...

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil is well-guarded by the entire mechanism of the state and power and privilege. And who is ready and able to keep at it after the police have put a 6.8×51mm through a piece of his own heart?"

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Distribution of greenhouse gas emissions are incredibly skewed in the US: 10% of the population emits 40% of the emissions, and there's a tiny population of wealthy super-emitters who manage put out as much in 15 days as the bottom 10% of the population does in their entire lifetime.

News coverage:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/17/greenhouse-emissions-income-inequality/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkyMjQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjkzNjI3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTIyNDQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjIwYWE3MmIwLWUyNGItNGU2My05ZmE4LTA5MjI4NzBiNjdmNyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjMvMDgvMTcvZ3JlZW5ob3VzZS1lbWlzc2lvbnMtaW5jb21lLWluZXF1YWxpdHkvIn0.VW8T_f6h0KXSMBzbaKIW8hsXp_vYAdrXilx6jRASGp8

Paper:
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000190

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