Like oil companies like Chevron are in the top 10 based on all the cars that use their gas.
That’s not really different than other companies, though, is it? Every company on the planet only produces carbon emissions in the effort to gain a profit in some way, through shipping, farming, etc. If we’re going to hold companies accountable for things like shipping emissions and waste, gas companies shouldn’t get a pass just because their product is the thing making the emissions.
Problem is the wording in the article has some words/phrases which do a lot of heavy lifting, like “traced back”; from the tweet, I would have thought the report would say the produced the emissions.
Yeah, it’s slightly misleading. It’s essentially saying that these 100 companies produce the things that produce those greenhouse gasses. For instance, it places blame for gasoline emissions on the gasoline producers, rather than the people and companies actually purchasing and using that gasoline.
To put it another way: If there were only one company producing gasoline, the study would blame that company for 100% of gasoline emissions. It doesn’t mean that company is actually using all of the gasoline. It simply means that the gas originated from that company.
When given this context, it’s basically impossible for individuals to even appear on the chart, because that would require people to have a homemade crude oil refinery in their back yard. However, this number likely isn’t too misleading. For instance, a single cruise liner produces the equivalent emissions as an entire city every day. Private jets are notoriously inefficient, and produce hilariously high emissions for (usually) two or three people at a time.
While I’m not claiming the respondent is wrong, can I get a citation for this data so I know who to try to work with to help reduce their emissions?
It’s real data but it’s kind of a weird methodology. Like oil companies like Chevron are in the top 10 based on all the cars that use their gas.
Not to say the sentiment in this meme is wrong at all, just that this specific study is weird.
That’s not really different than other companies, though, is it? Every company on the planet only produces carbon emissions in the effort to gain a profit in some way, through shipping, farming, etc. If we’re going to hold companies accountable for things like shipping emissions and waste, gas companies shouldn’t get a pass just because their product is the thing making the emissions.
So, it’s imputing ripple effects on to them?
From a study done back in 2017. It has probably gotten even worse since then, but that’s the most recent one I found.
Problem is the wording in the article has some words/phrases which do a lot of heavy lifting, like “traced back”; from the tweet, I would have thought the report would say the produced the emissions.
Yeah, it’s slightly misleading. It’s essentially saying that these 100 companies produce the things that produce those greenhouse gasses. For instance, it places blame for gasoline emissions on the gasoline producers, rather than the people and companies actually purchasing and using that gasoline.
To put it another way: If there were only one company producing gasoline, the study would blame that company for 100% of gasoline emissions. It doesn’t mean that company is actually using all of the gasoline. It simply means that the gas originated from that company.
When given this context, it’s basically impossible for individuals to even appear on the chart, because that would require people to have a homemade crude oil refinery in their back yard. However, this number likely isn’t too misleading. For instance, a single cruise liner produces the equivalent emissions as an entire city every day. Private jets are notoriously inefficient, and produce hilariously high emissions for (usually) two or three people at a time.