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[–] where_am_i 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Neither you not OP understand the problem. In the end, you damn white knights are not taken seriously cuz your arguments are trump-level idiotic. And so US politics looks like just idiots shouting at each other.

Let's take your claim of a bob being responsible for 0.00000015% of emissions at face value. US population is approximately 300,000,000. That means bobs combined are responsible for 45% of the emissions. And shell only for 5%. To me it seems like forget the shell, if we manage to get bob to emit 2/3 of what they regularly do, it's equivalent to erasing 3 shells from the planet.

So, it looks to me, from your own assumptions you should stop focusing on corporations and go hunt the laymen. You see someone use a gas heater? Set their house on fire. You see a pick-up truck! Puncture the tires. Start this activism across the country, and you'll do more for the environment than if you combine into a mob and manage to overthrow the evil greedy corpo.

Checkmate, anon.

[–] JackRiddle 1 points 3 weeks ago

You seem to not realise that "shell" is a stand-in for a lot of companies, each of which emits 5%. It is way more efficient to get a few companies than every person on earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

You’re just white knighting for the worst polluters in the world. I hope you didn’t break your neck falling off that high horse

[–] TheSlad 1 points 3 weeks ago

You do realize he just pulled those numbers out of his ass, right? Doing math with them is pointless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bob will emit roughly 15 metric tons of CO2 in his lifetime. Shell emitted roughly 50 million tons in 2023 alone

You sure?