There are ten people

One runs the big mill, he is named John. Eight of the ten people work for John. And one is homeless.

John has a friend as the manager of the others. John owns most of the resources and the others are effectively renting or have small portions. Even when John doesn’t own something, he can buy it from them or he can manipulate the group to gain it.

John could change the system to give everyone more and house the one homeless person. But the homeless person can’t work so John doesn’t see value in them.

The eight workers know that John has way more than them, and that their manager has more than them, but they’re too busy working to care too much about it.

John, and the workers by proxy, are pumping tons of pollution into the air and have began taking measures to filter the air. Such as wearing special masks.

The homeless person can’t afford the mask. They’ll either die or they won’t.

The people know there’s a problem but are simply too tired to try too hard to change it because they rely on John for resources.

Now, arguably, John **** ing sucks. He’s killing them all so he can have all his stuff he doesn’t need and forgets he has.

Additionally, perhaps the most innocent in this situation is the homeless person. Their carbon footprint is so much smaller than everyone else’s and they also suffer the most.

Simply, if we continue like this we’ll face worse consequences until something huge happens. John will either be dead by then because he’s old, or he’ll be the only one to afford his cushy lifestyle but he may give some people healthcare so they can make more whatever.

Either way, it sucks and we need more regulation because even though we’re tired, that’s very much on purpose and we need to press corporations for things because they’ll never give it to us. The longer we argue whether we deserve it we ignore the simply fact that nobody deserves that many resources.