Der deutsche Minister fordert „Superreiche“ auf, für das Klima zu zahlen

https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-calls-on-superrich-to-pay-for-climate/a-68916500

35 comments

  1. The only way they’ll pay is if there’s a profit for them

  2. They can keep making a profit if there are still people alive to buy things?

  3. where does superrich rank among the fuckyourich, uberrich, megarich and veryrich

  4. You can start with Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW etc.

    No one went to jail for dieselgate where literally thousands of mostly young children died

  5. The German government is kind of a joke at the moment, so nothing serious here

  8. This is the kind of things one says to appease the people that voted for you while planning to do nothing

    There is absolutely no way you could pay the profit loss of switching to greener energies by taxing billionaries

  9. Imagine if governments stopped their populist pandering towards the political left and actually worked on fixing the problems at hand (e.g. the continuing construction of coal and oil plants)… that would be *great*.

  11. The super rich dont pay for anything. Its how they stay super rich. They certainly arent going to voluntarily pay. You dont have to pay damages, if you just keep paying off politicians/lawmakers to make what you do legal. I wonder what the super rich will keep doing? it is a mystery for sure

  12. Well the problem is a person is unlilely to pay even 5$ more for a pair of jeans in trade for a better future for the rest

  13. A third of total wealth in Germany is concentrated in just 1% of the population. These include families with up to 50 billion in assets. Their assets grow every year by amounts that are beyond the imagination of normal earners. If each billion yields only 4%, that is 40 million returns from nothing. Through investment income alone.

  14. If you want the rich and powerful to pay for climate change, then you are clearly not rich and powerful enough to make it happen.

  15. I don’t see a problem with this. We’re already living on their fucking planet (as they see it), so why shouldn’t they pay for it’s upkeep and maintenance?

  16. It is perfectly OK to increase the taxes to rich people, but the Climate Change is just a cheap excuse. If they wanted to reduce carbon emissions, the first step would be to stop importing goods from countries that don’t care about it (mainly China, but not just it). A global problem like this one is not going to be solved with local policies that simply shift the blame to a small group (even if they, individually, polute much more than the rest). The main problem are the factories and construction projects in those countries and, if our politicians can not make anything about that, at the very least, they should say so and stop shifting the blame to others.

  18. It’s a bold move for the people with the literal money printing machine to assert the solution is a financial one. Let’s see how that works out for them.

  19. I’m confused why someone needs to pay for it.

    If it’s a genuine threat to us maybe we should do something about it or are we still under the illusion money and the insanely small portion of people that hold 90% of it are important.

    Because I’m pretty sure we could disappear the entire 1% and the world would be just fine.

    *Just sayin!*

  20. Honestly there’s no way to achieve this besides authoritarianism.

    Nobody is going to put their private jets away, or give up their 10th house, you have to take them away.

    Up to you if that giving the government that kind of control is worth it, because they WILL use it on you too.

  21. The super rich are the ones who decide who pays what. That said if enough politicians can think outside of their bank accounts, perhaps there could be laws that would have some effect on reclaiming the wealth the super rich have made on the economy that has caused this enormous damage to our priceless biosphere.

  22. I mean they’ve turned natural resources into billions of dollars they’ll never spend in their lifetime because there isn’t enough shit to soak up so many billions of dollars. The least they can do is convert at least some of those billions back into natural resources.

  23. I said the same thing. My father who thinks they deserve it all, says that if you have laws that do that all of the billionaires will leave. Okay? Buh-bye.

  24. Take any western extremely wealthy producer. Would they be wealthy if not a single person voluntarily did business with them? Nope. So is it really just their fault or all the other people that buy from them too? Surely they are to blame a little too, right?

    How about if that company gets subsidies from the gov to produce products, are the politicians that create and vote for that subsidy also to blame?

    What about when a politician is reelected after they implemented the subsidy, and after winning the re-election vote (perhaps even campaigning on the subsidy), that politician does the same thing with another company, are those that voted for him also responsible?

    The overwhelming majority of this climate bs is just a money & power grab. It’s like people suddenly become stupid and think just because its an issue they agree with the politician isn’t still a lying fuck out for themselves.

    No, no, no Jen, we can trust HIM, he cares about the planet, he said so! And I don’t like rich people so of course I’ll lap up whatever is on his spoon.

    Fucking sheeple. 🐑 🧍

  25. Billionaires don’t have nearly as much money as the governments for the economies that produced them–governments which they already disproportionately fund.

  27. I love living in a world where governments have to beg rich people to do things instead of just making them do it.

  28. I can’t wait to follow his employment from here. Good luck buddy.

  29. Lol you can’t pay your out of this one. We’re fucked.

  33. Tax wealth.  The super rich are super rich because they don’t have any concerns beyond their own wealth.

  34. Don’t let them claim they own the environment – they will.

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