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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

~~It's 57 doing 80% now 🙃🙃~~

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016

Capitalism working as intended

EDIT: I was made aware that the headline is misleading

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Only the it's not companies but entities which include China, the former soviet union and the Russian federation. This is such a fucking missleading title the guardian ran here.

https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Maybe it's a stupid question, but aren't the companies that burn the fossil fuel responsonsible for the emmisions?