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Reminder that over 70% of greenhouse emissions are from about 100 companies. https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-companies-responsible-71-gh

• chneu 1y ago
  This is a cop out that capitalism LOVES. It relinquishes the individual of any blame and encourages more consumption. We need to consume less and vote for climate policy. This begins with the individual. Those companies only get away with it because of our complacency. Your logic encourages that complacency and corporations LOVE that. They're happy to take the blame because they know people will still buy their product. It starts with the individual. Nothing changes until the individual cares enough. There are always excuses and others to blame while we destroy the livable environment.
  • andrewflnr 1y ago
    Funny, the line I hear more often is that blaming consumers instead of corporations is the capitalist copout. The point being, we need political change that regulates the corporations more than we need individual behavior change, and corporations would rather have any other outcome. That version makes more sense to me.
• neuronexmachina 1y ago
  A couple notes about that release: * It focuses on "industrial emissions", which in their analysis doesn't seem to include agriculture * It's largely indirect emissions, e.g. if someone uses gas in their car from a gas station which was refined from crude oil purchased from Saudi Aramco.
• xnx 1y ago
  Even more shocking, customers are responsible for 100% of those emissions!
  • justinrubek 1y ago
    Funny, I don't remember asking them to emit anything.
    • xnx 1y ago
      We vote for their behavior with our dollars. We outsource our emissions to them.
    • 201984 1y ago
      You burned their gas in your car.