Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
by Jordan Engel, 13 June 2019, via Films for Action
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips
Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies – and they are mostly guys – have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction of the only home humanity has ever known. Meanwhile, we misdirect our outrage at our neighbors, friends, and family for using plastic straws or not recycling. If there is anyone who deserves the outrage of all 7.5 billion of us, it’s these 100 people right here. Combined, they control the majority of the world’s mineral rights – the “right” to exploit the remaining unextracted oil, gas, and coal. They need to know that we won’t leave them alone until they agree to Keep It In The Ground. Not just their companies, but them. Now it’s personal.
Houston tops this list as home to 7 of the 100 top ecocidal planet killers, followed by Jakarta, Calgary, Moscow, and Beijing. The richest person on the list is Russian oil magnate Vagit Alekperov, who is currently worth $20.7 billion.
The map is in the form of a cartogram which represents the size of countries by their cumulative carbon dioxide emissions since industrialization.
This map is a response to the pervasive myth that we can stop climate change if we just modify our personal behavior and buy more green products. Whether or not we separate our recycling, these corporations will go on trashing the planet unless we stop them. The key decision-makers at these companies have the privilege of relative anonymity, and with this map, we’re trying to pull back that veil and call them out. These guys should feel the same personal responsibility for saving the planet that we all feel.
Closeup of the top 32 North Americans killing the planet.
WRI Climate Analysis Indicators Tool
Closeup of the top 18 Europeans killing the planet.
“Names and Location of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet, 2019” was made by Jordan Engel.
Sources:
2017 Carbon Majors Report
WRI Climate Analysis Indicators Tool via The Carbon Map
The Forbes List of Richest People in the World
Correction 6/14/19: Krzysztof Sędzikowski is no longer the head of Polish Mining Group (Polska Grupa Górnicza) in Katowice, Poland (since January 2018). He was replaced by Tomasz Rogala (https://www.pgg.pl/o-firmie/zarzad).
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Now if only CO2 actually were harming the planet! Do your homework guys. Look at the evidence1! Why do you believe this nonsense without evidence when you disbelieve everything else for which there is no evidence?
The half you can see: only half the story.
The rest you can’t see:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/the-climate-counter-offensive-secrecy-deception-and-disarming-the-green-new-deal/
Blaming 100 people for materialism is flat out dumb.
What is without doubt dumb is that what you get from this article is “materialism” is the issue. Flat out that’s dumb.
Material resources become consumed as commodity materialism. Energy resources go into the manufacture of material goods, even services, welfare, and military usage has a material component. We live in a material world, which makes your lack of understanding not so clever either. The economy is biophysical, as I have been detailing for God knows how long. Depending on whose statistics you use: capitalist materialist consumers account for between 15 and 30% of the world’s population. It is those discretionary consumers that are living off the rest of the worlds wellbeing, and conspicuously consuming the future too. That’s energy and climate imperialism: because we export the costs of consumption and the Human Impact crisis to the Global South …expecting them to pay, with their lives if necessary. Reductively assigning culpability for the profligate consumption of up to 2bn people is dumber than dumb. And deliberately obfuscating the dynamics of capitalist lifestyle… Read more »
Satan’s soldiers wearing suits.
They have only one pursuit.
Loot, loot and more loot.
Carbon diversion or carbon false flag is the means to obscure the active harming that is actually current so as to persist in a ‘sustainable’ business model – as the business of possession and control. The blame game is the projecting away or ‘outsourcing’ of pain and consequence for enacted fantasy at expense of true account and relation. It translates as power struggle by all and any means, to effect someone ELSE paying the price. Investment and addiction to power to avoid and evade pain of loss of possession and control works a negative agenda of division set up to rule out true with-ness in true worth-ship, by asserting and establishing self-reinforcing patterns of conflicted polarised identity. The true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself… Read more »
Brian Steere. Is this BINRA in disguise?
brian is binra – no disguise. Its a ‘handle’ or login name i took years ago when brian was already taken. You can read into it whatever you want. Are you Maggie or disguised as Maggie? What is the point of your point? My writing is recognisable regardless the handle – unless perhaps I chose to write under an assumed persona. I find it tiresome to have to ‘try’ to be anything I am not – so what comes up is what I feel moved to write. Truth is recognised wordless in the heart but when the mind is engaged in substitution, truth is masked out or disguised so as to be effectively unrecognisable. But truth neither hides or goes away or attacks illusion. The simple truth is – ‘it takes one to know one’. You cannot meet what you are not the vibration of. Nor can you not meet… Read more »
binra uses lower case, darling.
I don’t see Monsanto or Bayer on these maps. They are killing the earth more than anyone else.
Double up on your meds and have a good lie down.
You know, when somebody says that, as somebody quite often does in places like this, that it’s that somebody who needs those meds.
Read the post then shuddup.
This article is totally based on the unfounded allegation that carbon dioxide emissions are killing the planet. A few facts: 1. Without carbon dioxide, no photosynthetic organism can convert sunlight energy into sugars, since water and carbon dioxide are the input materials for photosynthesis. The by product, oxygen, is essential for all mammals to survive. So carbon dioxide is intrinsic to our survival. 2. Because carbon dioxide levels are generally low, increasing carbon dioxide can increase photosynthesis rates linearly, which acts as a major stabiliser when major fires reduce forests and the balance of global ecology shifts towards respirers exhaling carbon dioxide. 3. The earth has existed happily in geological time with a few thousand ppm carbon dioxide, so saying it is a poison is a flat out LIE. Now let us discuss how the earth might be endangered. Firstly, deforestation. The primary downside is destruction of soil, loss of… Read more »
So we can all just stop worrying our silly little heads about carbon dioxide concentration can we? And methane as well, no doubt. Thanks for setting my mind at ease, all those peer reviewed papers pointing towards the correlation between greenhose gasses and global warming really were beginning to spoil my sunny disposition.
By the way, nowhere in the article does it state that carbon dioxide is a poison, so making a point of calling that a lie is irrelevant. As are its positive properties – no-one will deny them. It’s just that, evidently, you really can have too much of a good thing.
Nosebag:
? So, are you of the belief that it is impossible to engineer the weather ?
Not wishing to spoil your sunny disposition, but we have to finally start somewhere,
that is if you wish to discuss Climate Change seriously & scientifically ?
Wow, I truly wonder at whomsoever disliked me asking a most straight forward and honest goddamn question, without having the testicles to answer or respond ?
Not even a grunt of sincerity ?
You firkin’ unscientific coward, who ever you are, you would probably benefit from a healthy chat with a clinical psychologist like JP (Jordan Peterson) 🙂
Brought to you by big coal and big oil; co sponsored by the CIA.
I dunno what you’re good for, but you’re good at cliche.
Robbobbobbobbobbin…. and it would appear that you are a Hasbara troll with nothing of any substance to add, but here seeking to cause disruption.
Push off pal…
Aaaargh, having a bad day Maggie?
or are you Antipropo, in disguise ?
😉
Hmmm. Hasbara troll, huh? In that case, pls don’t “pal” me. And, also, here is some text I was preparing to post in reply to a post under another article but never did because the article got dropped from the right hand end of the horizontal scrolly thing at the top of the main page and it was too much effort to locate it: ________________________________________ Quoted passage and some positioning preamble not here relevant so omitted. ________________________________________ 1. The formation of the State of Israel was illegitimate (reasons here omitted for brevity) and so had no “right” to its existence before its recent formal, legislative assertion of its Jewish exclusivity and even less of any such “right” since. 2. The Oslo Accords and the “two state ‘solution'” were a massive con job (read “fraud”) perpetrated on the Palesintian people of the old British Mandate by some hard headed Jewish negotiators… Read more »
Rhys, nobody said that CO2 is toxic to the planet. The high its concentration in the atmosphere the higher the absorption of light energy. Some people call this the greenhouse effect. And yes – it has been higher – but then – no men around by this time… So – you know that I know that you should know that CO2 is bad – for us.
Agreeing on 1 and 2 besides. 3 is bad as well. I do not like to prioritize any of the four (of five or more). Bad is bad. And reminding people, that are at the top of the food chain about their responsibility is not a bad idea…
No No. CO2 doesn’t absorb light energy. It absorbs IR (infra red for the non-cognoscenti) reflected from Earth’s surface. It immediately releases that energy to the other 99.96% of atmospheric gases that are
not
CO2 (second law of thermodynamics). The whole heated airmass rises due to convection (go look it up) and continues to rise and cool; eventually the heat energy makes it all the way to space. Earth and its atmosphere and oceans and physical processes are not a closed system
Good comment, Rhys:- I’m trying to gauge OffG & its’ readers ability to reason scientifically & logically: and further initiate constructive ‘talk’ about where to begin ANY serious change in public awareness of ‘Climate’ & what WE have already unloaded historically on our planet, inc. far beyond our minuscule Biosphere. Therefore, I have but one question for you personally: do you believe that we have the ability and have already utilised this ability to engineer, weaponise and steer the weather, both for military and corporate economic gain ? Ostensibly, to bolster the control of Science, Knowledge & Peoples via the MSM ? My AIM has everything to do with highlighting Artificial Ionospheric Mirrors, where smoke & mirrors have prevailed, preventing any Legitimate public mainstream discussion internationally on the world stage. Because imho, only a state funded scientist, in fear of losing their job & creature comforts, would respond like the… Read more »
Here lies the problem, the blame game! Whilst it is demonstrably true that our civilization is ruled by a psychopathic minority with the wealth that provides them the power to rule over us & cause catastrophic ecological devastation. Its wrong to play the finger pointing game. It’s a fact capitalism has driven the demand in consumerism & exploitation of natural resources, & technology driven the explosion in human population, its wrong to try to pin the blame on one single issue or individual, because we all literally bought into it. It is also a misconception the greatest threat to our planet is global warming & climate change. There is no denying climate change will have devastating consequences for many species, most certainly including Homo sapiens. But the greatest threat to civilization & all life on planet earth is diminishing biodiversity & mass extinction. Its not so easy to disentangle the… Read more »
What the consumer ants don’t know is that Nature ALWAYS takes care of business.
Not only are pesticides and herbicides having a traumatic effect on ‘lower’ species, but ‘man’ is effectively being sterilised.
Unfortunately the sterilization of man doesn’t mitigate against the hideous effects chemical pollution is having on more intelligent protozoa.
QT, I agree but the damage is already done, and the hideous effects of chemical pollution is sadly having a far, far greater effect on the LESS intelligent protozoa and they aren’t even aware of why or how…. that is why Nature keeps trying to regulate itself. The life blood is being sucked from the Earth to quench our insatiable appetites and there is no end in sight. We can throw our arms up and protest, but woefully those who could make a difference if they had the will, are just not listening . As John Lennon said ”All we need is love’ -‘ awareness and healing, within ourselves, and our world.. Otherwise known as ‘Collective Consciousness’ which is a mighty tool, and acknowledging it could save our world, if it could be nurtured. >>In questioning the belief’s that individually we follow so blindly, we can begin to turn the… Read more »
I do hope you’re not falling in love with binra. He’s on meds, you know.
Lol, Sorry….I know the post was rather long… but appropriate I thought?
And no I am not enamoured with binra/brian/brain, whatever he is called this week..
I am repulsed, and bored to tears with his verbal gymnastics.
So hit the “Next” button or do the equivalent in your browser? His name is at the top left of his every post. Easy to spot. Nobody is forcing you to read stuff that is too difficult for you to comprehend if you feel compelled to stay in a mindset that can’t accommodate it. (And no, it wasn’t the length of your post that prompted my comment, it was the content.)