• Blamemeta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cars aren’t the real problem. The real problem is shipping cheap shit across the pacific. The top ten biggest ships pollute more than every car in the world combined. Also, fuck cruise ships, there is literally zero benefit to them, just a resort on a boat.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a very compelling argument with teensy-weensy flaw of not being true. Not even close. The entire martitime cargo sector is estimated at 3-4% of CO2 emissions, whereas land transport is closer to 10%.

      • LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yup! Source I have from 2016 has it even more unbalanced than your numbers. All shipping is 1.7% vs all road transport at 11.9%. Wish I had more recent data but their claim wouldn’t be true even if those top ten ships represented the entirety of ocean emissions and was tripled afterwards.