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by southernplaces7 415 days ago
>What amount of GHG emissions is from consumers?

Why not try some of your own googling too?

As for the companies in question. I was off on the percentage but here:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

Also, i'm not a "climate change denier" (a loaded, idiotic and ideological phrase to begin with, especially because it often gets used when someone even debates elements of something so complex as climate change) But I do think that one of the petro/gas/plastics corporate world's great PR tricks was to throw the mass media onus on consumer CO2 emissions and help create a massive consumer guilt campaign about individual activity while happily continuing to pollute on a literally industrial scale.

This is not to say that individuals should be wasteful and reckless in their personal environmental habits, but idiocies like mass anti-straw campaigns are partly absurd in comparison to industrial atmospheric contamination and etc.

Yes, much of it ultimately ties into consumer consumption, but much more of the blame should also tie into corporate emissions creation.