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.
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.