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The government would only publicize the emissions that benefit us politically, which are likely the primary polluters we already know about (China, India, etc).
by micromacrofoot 4y ago
The government would only publicize the emissions that benefit us politically, which are likely the primary polluters we already know about (China, India, etc).
- hinkley 4y agoCorporations are multinational. The atmosphere doesn't care if that methane plume came from a plant in the US or a US-owned plant in Nigeria. Or on an rig in the North Sea.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoCorporations are multinational, but politics still plays favorites.
- motokamaks 4y agoThe Primary polluters are still China and USA. India is a far 3rd and emits 50% less CO2 than the USA. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271748/the-largest-emitters-of-co2-in-the-world/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/271748/the-largest-emitt...
- lob_it 4y agohttps://www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-countries-that-dump-the-most-plastic-into-the-ocean https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-... India can be #1 in most plastic dumped into the oceans. We're all #1 in our own special ways :p
- robocat 4y agoI’m not sure what those figures are for. They list India with 126.5 million kg of plastic “dumped”, yet the Phillipines is #1 with nearly 3x that amount of plastic waste going down its rivers into to oceans: 360 million kg (3.6 × 10^5 Metric tonnes) of plastic waste according to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803
- lob_it 4y agoIn other news, its obvious which region has trash problems