How Deep Is Your Love?

The richest 1% of humans produce 15% of the planet's annual climate-altering, 'greenhouse gas' emissions. A mega-rich sub-cohort will account for a disproportionately large portion of this total. One of the ways they do this, is to pay for expensive 'experiences'. These include 'space tourism'. This, essentially, involves paying millions of dollars for a few minutes of weightlessness. Such experiences, of course, generate astronomical masses of 'greenhouse gases'. One now should add to this, 'deep sea tourism experiences'. This 'industry' has come to prominence, with the recent Titan 'tragedy'. Four of the 5 folk on that submersible, each paid $200,000, to view the 'famous' wreck of the Titanic (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/titanic-sub-us-navy-james-cameron-detected-likely-implosion-titan-submersible). Wall-to-wall media interest was generated. State-of-the-art ships and planes, with impressive technologies, searched for days for any sign of the submersible. The passengers on the submersible have now been described as 'true explorers'. This is in marked contrast to declining media interest in the protracted drowning of circa 750 'immigrants', including women and children. These folk were left, by 'smugglers', aboard a vastly overcrowded fishing vessel, that sank near Greece (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/greek-shipwreck-migrant-boat-more-bodies-found). But these folk weren't rich. They probably weren't even frequent flyers. They certainly weren't risking their lives for the experience. They weren't true explorers.