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This was my first thought too. The reliance on shipping and the resulting emissions. It wouldn't surprise me if the huge cargo ships produced more emissions th
by pier25 3y ago
This was my first thought too. The reliance on shipping and the resulting emissions.
It wouldn't surprise me if the huge cargo ships produced more emissions than cars globally.
- rsynnott 3y agoI mean, this is something you can trivially look up. Shipping, total, is about 10% of transport emissions, cars and vans are 50%, road freight is 25%. (Shipping, there, does include some stuff other than cargo, but it’s mostly cargo).
- pier25 3y agoYes I was on my phone before but here's some more data. https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector Shpping is 1.7% of global emissions. Much less than I had expected from reading the OP article.