Private jets. Mega-yachts. Helicopters. Mansions. The luxury lifestyles of the ultra-rich are pumping our air full of pollutants. So how do we clean them up – and why is progress so slow?

Credits
Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Video Editor: Nils Reinecke
Supervising editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Read more:
Billionaire emissions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1...
Carbon inequality: https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/up...
How the 1% can help: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...
Flights: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Reducing demand: https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPC...

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Billionaires
03:44 Carbon Inequality
05:19 Redistributing Wealth
06:30 Flying
09:18 Beyond consumption
10:59 Conclusion