Rebecca Solnit: Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. “The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis.”
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If you were a billionaire, would you rather have politicians arguing about solutions to the climate crisis or about what to do about all those migrants and transsexuals?
Or perhaps just arguing?
Billionaire Tone Deafness, Exhibit A: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38957988/jim-irsay-cites-status-white-billionaire-2014-arrest
I try to read everything, especially opinion pieces, that R. Solnit writes. She is bright, articulate, and bold. This piece is a great example. The world's income inequality is insane.
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