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📢 New Lesson: 10. What This Means for Climate
Today we’re releasing the final lesson in the main billionaire–climate series:
What This Means for Climate — how all nine mechanisms shape the world we are now living in.
This lesson pulls everything together.
It shows how billionaire wealth doesn’t just coexist with the climate crisis — it requires and accelerates it.
Not through individual intent, but through the structure of the system.
If you’ve felt the pieces building across the last nine days, today they click into place.
🔥 What you’ll learn today
This lesson ties all nine mechanisms back to climate action and climate risk.
You’ll learn how:
1. Extreme wealth requires extreme extraction
More materials, more energy, more emissions.
2. Cost externalisation pushes climate costs onto the public
Floods, fires, pollution, health impacts — all shifted outward.
3. Market dominance slows the clean-energy transition
Monopolies protect the status quo.
4. Shareholder pressure intensifies environmental harm
Short-term wins trump long-term climate stability.
5. Tax avoidance weakens society’s ability to prepare and adapt
Less money for resilience, protection, infrastructure, and justice.
6. Lobbying shapes the rules that shape the climate
Regulation is slowed, watered down, or blocked entirely.
7. Debt leverage fuels expansion of high-emission industries
More drilling, more extraction, more global supply chains.
8. Public subsidies keep harmful sectors alive
Fossil fuels, aviation, shipping, and industrial agriculture.
9. The billionaire feedback loop accelerates everything
More wealth → more influence → more extraction → more emissions.
This 10th lesson shows the full picture: billionaire wealth and climate justice are structurally incompatible.
Not because billionaires are bad people.
But because the system demands behaviours that harm the climate.
đź’¬ Your Activity for Today
Question:
After seeing all 10 mechanisms, which one do you think most shapes the climate crisis — and why?
Some possibilities:
- fossil fuel subsidies
- lobbying
- shareholder pressure
- public money flowing into high-emission sectors
- tax avoidance reducing climate budgets
- monopoly power blocking alternatives
- debt-driven expansion
- externalised environmental costs
Even a short reflection helps others connect the full picture.
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