I've never really understood the "giant corporations" talking point. Even if the numbers are accurate, giant corporations don't just create emissions for fun -

I've never really understood the "giant corporations" talking point. Even if the numbers are accurate, giant corporations don't just create emissions for fun -- they do it to create a product that will be purchased by consumers, i.e. individuals. If an individual buys a plastic toy, and the production of that toy caused a corporation to emit 10kg of carbon, in my mind that individual is responsible for that carbon, even if it was a Hasbro factory in China who emitted it. Similarly, I don't understand the talking point "even if the US goes carbon neutral, China is an even bigger problem, US is only 15% of emissions". A big part of that is because the West outsourced their manufacturing (and thus emissions) to China! If the West buys carbon-intensive products from China, the West is responsible for that carbon. China isn't making container ships full of plastic toys for fun. Obviously, China has a large domestic population with its own emissions issues with coal power plants, but non-trivial amounts of Chinese emissions are just off-shored Western emissions. Is there something I am missing here?