Most of the emissions are done by the 100 biggest corporations. That's where I'd start fixing things.

Deukhoofd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That factoid always hides the real issue. The biggest reason that that factoid is true is that the 100 biggest companies includes a large amount of the fossil fuel industry, and that that industry produces most emissions in the world. A company like Saudi Aramco produce 4% of global emissions.

We need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

For full clarity, it's also not the 100 biggest corporations that produce most emissions, but the 100 biggest companies. A massive amount of the global emissions are done by state-owned companies.

	▲	georgemcbay 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> We need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. Unfortunately the United States is currently ruled by a death cult that sees any further push to renewables as capitulation to China and is dedicated to burning fossil fuels until they are fully gone. See, for example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sbvp4ULD6GI And while this part is less explicitly stated, I'm convinced they aren't ignorant of the devastating results of this policy, they just intend to profit off it rather than mitigate the harms, thus the stated interest in taking Greenland, Canada, etc. They know things are going to get really bad, but they also know their own wealth will at least in the short term shield them from much personal exposure to the harm that will increasingly immiserate everyone else.

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Cribbin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s basically a different way of measuring the same thing. These corporations don’t just exist in a bubble, many of them are going to be behind the food production either directly or indirectly (e.g. energy companies providing fuel for machinery).

Food is responsible for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions[1]. I agree that it’s not realistic to assume this will be solved individually, more pressure needs to be put on these large corporations from governments, but the quickest way you or I can make our own (individually small, collectively large) impact is by cutting out meat from our diet (specifically beef[2]). We are end-consumers of those 100 largest corporations one way or another.

(Not a vegetarian/vegan btw. I’m not trying to shame, I’m certainly not perfect! I just wanted to share the info that it’s not someone else’s problem. We’re all in this together)

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions [2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/food-footprints?Commodi...

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carlgreene 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't corporations just serve their patrons?

	▲	Supermancho 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"just" is a weasel word there. Decisions are made and policies are enacted based on a number of factors.
	▲	stetrain 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And their investors.

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scottyah 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The smaller ones are most likely less efficient (which blocked their growth). So it'd be a game of whack-a-mole where every hit makes everything worse...