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by gruez 1948 days ago
>It's massive corporations creating something like 90% of all greenhouse gasses? 100 of them create 71%

And why are those corporations emitting Co2? For the fun of it? Because it generates profit for them? No, it's a means to an end for them, which is producing products that ultimately go to consumers. On the flip side, if you're a consumer and 80% of your co2 emissions are indirectly generated by corporations working on your behalf, you don't get absolved for that 80%.

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Great, now you have two parties who both don't think they are responsible for the problem. Customers blame companies. Companies blame customers. Nobody thinks about the real problem which is the fact that governments are allowing the continued subsidy of CO2 emissions. You can't expect a system that is built around incentivizing CO2 emissions to reduce CO2 emissions for the sake of charity.