Stop the admiration. How the Rich Killed the Planet

Why should you stop trying to get rich if you are for humanity and saving the planet?

Before I admired the rich and now they make me sick.

I admired the rich when I was in my twenties and thirties, and I tried to be one of them. However, I was juvenile and ignorant, not understanding what it takes to be wealthy and stay that way.

I did not know that to make your millions and get power, you must be cruel and have no backbone. Not forgetting the expense of destroying humanity and the planet.

All for the sake of success.

The rich will do anything to stay at the top, regardless of the consequences. They don’t care about anyone but themselves, and they’ll stop at nothing to maintain their power.

They’ll lie, cheat, and steal without a second thought. They’ll crush anyone who gets in their way, even if it means destroying innocent lives.

The rich are greedy and ungrateful, two traits that will eventually be their undoing. They take more than they need, while others go without.

They’re never satisfied, and they always want more.

Marley K. in her article about how the rich screw us every day describes the rich as:

The rich took their money and ran. They gave it to shareholders. They gave their CEOs fat bonuses. The rich put their trickle-down proceeds into off-shore accounts to shelter them from us. Years of divestment in the American people have come home to roost, which is why they are gently telling you, are not no help to come to save us.

You’re on your own.

The rich have always been able to take care of themselves. They have always had the best doctors, the best schools, the best everything.

And they want to keep it that way. They don’t want to share their wealth with anyone, not even those who are less fortunate.

As you can see, they did not improve our lives and only do everything to harm humanity for their benefit.

Human life is meaningless to them.

To them, we are just like cattle. We’re nothing more than money-grubbing peasants to them.

Many rich people I have met even brag about how they can screw fellow humans. They are proud.

As Shreya Badonia makes a point in her article about success and rich people are always admired for this.

People don’t care about you being a felon or a horrible person.

Joshua Edward continues to argue in his essay that we worship the planet’s biggest psychos just because they are wealthy.

Jack Welch was on the bestseller list for multiple books that talked about how to exploit people, routinely fire thousands of people for no good reason, and skirt government regulations designed to protect the environment. Despite all that, he is still (several years post-mortem) considered by many to be a top icon of success.

Another way how rich make me sick is how they pollute our planet with consumption and have no consideration.

I wrote an article about how the luxury kills our planet:

Yesterday, I was debating with my friend about what she thinks about who is the biggest polluter, the rich or the poor. She thinks they are the poor because they don’t recycle, and throw things whatever they feel like at the moment. I think the rich are the greater polluters. So, I did a little research, and it looks like I was right.

Indeed, they are.

Despite the poor throwing out of the window a bottle, or any other plastic, their carbon footprint is much lesser than the rich one. BBC News published a story about this, recently.

The world’s wealthiest 10% were responsible for around half of the global emissions in 2015, according to a 2020 report from Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute. The top 1% were responsible for 15% of emissions, nearly twice as much as the world’s poorest 50%, who were responsible for just 7% and will feel the brunt of climate impacts despite bearing the least responsibility for causing them.

Now we know the wealthiest have the highest footprint on the planet and pollute the most. Wealth has a very toxic effect on emissions by almost 50%.

Even in this chart, you can see who pollutes most:

The media blows up links between environmental degradation and economic disparities, blaming the former on the latter.

The USA or India is seen as richer or poorer depending on who you ask. According to this hypothesis, wealth disparities will grow in the future owing to environmental harm.

The poorest people are the ones who are paying the price for climate change, and they didn’t even cause it.

The rich did.

And that is one of many reasons I can’t stand them. I hate them.

They are also the most ignorant of environmental issues and think they don’t have to do anything about it because they have money.

They think their money can buy them anything, even a way out of this mess.

But it can’t.

In conclusion, the rich are responsible for the destruction of our planet. Their private planes, enormous mansions, their luxury cars even the electric, and lavish lifestyles, are destroying our children’s future. So, I ask you again:

Why you want to become one of them? Stop the admiration!