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Fringey Mini: Yacht to be kidding me · Journey to the Fringe

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  So Chelsea, starting the year off. I shouldn't
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  say starting the year off. We're starting off
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  the recording year, I guess. Oh, yeah. And I
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  thought it would be good to check up on our rich
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  friends. And I got this article from Oxfam International
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  on them. Published on January 9th, 2026. Article
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  title, the richest 1 % have blown through their
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  fair share of carbon emissions for 2026 in just
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  10 days, says Oxfam. Same. No. Not me. No. I
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  think I misunderstood that. Okay. Let's read
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  further. The richest 1 % have exhausted their
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  annual carbon budget. The amount of CO2 that
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  can be emitted while staying within 1 .5 degrees
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  of warming only 10 days into the year, according
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  to a new analysis from Oxfam, the richest 0 .1
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  % already used up their carbon limit by the 3rd
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  of January. Wow. This day, named by... oxfam
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  as plutocrats day highlights how the super rich
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  are disproportionately responsible for driving
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  the climate crisis the emissions of the richest
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  one percent generated in one year alone will
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  cause an estimated 1 .3 million heat -related
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  deaths by the end of the century That is insane.
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  Meanwhile... Those who have done the least to
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  cause the climate crisis, including communities
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  in poorer and climate vulnerable countries, indigenous
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  groups, women and girls, will be the worst impacted.
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  Quote, time and time again, the research shows
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  that governments have a very clear and simple
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  route to drastically slash carbon emissions and
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  tackle inequality. By cracking down on the gross
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  carbon recklessness of the super -rich, global
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  leaders have an opportunity to put the world
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  back on track for climate targets and unlock
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  net benefits for people and the planet. End quote,
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  said Oxfam climate policy lead, Nafkot Dabi.
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  On top of their lifestyle emissions, the super
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  rich are also investing in the most polluting
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  industries. Oxfam's research finds that each
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  billionaire carries, on average, an investment
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  portfolio in companies that will produce 1 .9
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  billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, further
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  locking the world into a climate breakdown. The
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  wealthiest individuals and corporations also
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  hold disproportionate power and influence. The
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  number of lobbyists from fossil fuel companies
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  attending the recent COP summit in Brazil, for
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  example, was more than any delegation apart from
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  the host nation with 1 ,600 attendees. Quote,
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  the immense power and wealth of super -rich individuals
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  and corporations have also allowed them to wield
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  unjust influence over policymaking and watered
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  -down climate negotiations. End quote, Nefcott
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  Dabi added. Oxfam calls on governments to slash
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  the emissions of the super rich and make rich
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  polluters pay through increased taxes on income
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  and wealth for the super rich and proactively
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  support and engage on the negotiations for the
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  UN Convention of International Tax Cooperation
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  to deliver a fair global architecture. Excess
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  profit taxes on fossil fuel corporations. A rich
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  polluter profit tax on 585 oil, gas, and coal
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  companies could raise up to 400 US billion in
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  its first year, equivalent to the cost of climate
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  damage to the global south. Ban or punitively
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  tax carbon -intensive luxury items such as superyachts
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  and private jets. The carbon footprint of a super
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  -rich European accumulated from nearly a week
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  of using a superyacht and private jets matches
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  the lifetime carbon footprint of someone in the
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  world's poorest 1%. and build an equal economic
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  system that puts people and planet first by rejecting
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  dominant neoliberal economics and moving towards
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  an economy based on sustainability and equality.
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  That is the article. It has a lot of footnotes,
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  but I just thought it... you know start the year
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  off and like look at that not even 10 days in
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  and they've used up their emissions which I assume
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  means they'll stop. Yeah yeah of course they'll
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  stop it's only three days in they just wanted
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  to get it over with and then they won't do it
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  anymore I'm sure. Yeah. You know what like they
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  should just say like we're not allowing you to
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  have anything that's going to surpass the carbon
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  emissions that you're able to within this amount
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  of time. Do you mean kind of like a breathalyzer?
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  Kind of like a breathalyzer for somebody who's
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  gotten too many DUIs so they can't start their
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  car without breathing into it. Yeah, exactly.
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  But you know what? They're not going to do it
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  because capitalism. Yeah, and I think the orcas
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  should be the ones enforcing this system. And
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  I think they are, slowly but surely. Yeah, they
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  might need to get into bigger pods for the bigger
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  super yachts, but I have faith in them. And the
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  thing that I worry about the most with the super
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  rich is that they're learning from the orcas
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  that they just don't have big enough boats. Yeah.
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  So are you saying that orcas should get boats
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  no i'm thinking that the rich are going to get
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  bigger boats to stave off orca attacks yeah and
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  it's just going to leave the lesser rich to the
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  orcas to take care of it's also an option that
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  the orcas do get boats they should do that we
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  can try away from them they can take the super
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  yacht boats board them, and the super rich can
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  therefore become orcas, just like the wolves
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  did. Yeah. And who are our scientists to tell
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  them that they can't do that? I don't think we
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  should put limitations on orcas. Our scientists
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  just did tell them that. Anyhow, orcas, you've
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  got 48 hours. Figure it out. I know you listen
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  to this. Yep. We love you. Anyhow, bye.