What’s being done to address the 100 corporations that cause 70% of the world’s emissions?
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/just-100-firms-attributable-...
I see that number floating around a lot, it's oversimplified and lacking context.
«71% of those emissions originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions from producing fossil fuels (like oil, coal and gas), and the _subsequent use of the fossil fuels they sell to other companies_.»
https://fullfact.org/news/are-100-companies-causing-71-carbo...
Consider what «subsequent use of the fossil fuels they sell to other companies» entails. We're talking energy, transport, manufacturing, etc.
The car you lease every 3 years, your new iPhone every 2 years, new clothes every season, etc.
Will corporations make products that last 20+ years or is planned obsolescence the only way to ensure YoY revenue growth
But to use your own example of iPhones: Apple itself is carbon neutral, and recently announced a goal of making all its suppliers carbon neutral by 2030.
Never an argument about the merits of the proposal, just some trite hand-wringing that somewhere somehow someone might be able to use it to their political advantage. Never even an explanation of why this one thing would be so dangerous when governments already by nature have vast authority to control pretty much anything they want.
Worst of all you can't reason against it, since it's not a position of reason. Regardless of what point you make they'll just dig in and ignore them. :(
So let’s tax petrol, that way we reduce consumption