Also, the guardian misrepresented the study in their title. The study is about “lifestyle emissions” The top 10% don’t produce 50% of all global emissions.
The study (Carbon Majors Report) talks about industrial emissions (which TG conveniently omits). And CMR talks about producers (industrial groups extracting fossil fuels), not companies like Apple. And CMR sometimes lumps whole national sectors together and counts them as 1 “producer”, like Chinas coal sector. Oh, and they include “downstream emissions” which means emissions caused by using (burning) the product (like gasoline).
The Guardian seems to put “fitting narrative” over “factual information” in more than one case. Deliberate misinformation. Maybe that’s necessary in the brawl with alt-right narratives, but I still despise it.
Heh, typical. Probably everybody knows the meme Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, a title of another The Guardian article?
The study (Carbon Majors Report) talks about industrial emissions (which TG conveniently omits). And CMR talks about producers (industrial groups extracting fossil fuels), not companies like Apple. And CMR sometimes lumps whole national sectors together and counts them as 1 “producer”, like Chinas coal sector. Oh, and they include “downstream emissions” which means emissions caused by using (burning) the product (like gasoline).
The Guardian seems to put “fitting narrative” over “factual information” in more than one case. Deliberate misinformation. Maybe that’s necessary in the brawl with alt-right narratives, but I still despise it.