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New data has revealed stark disparities in how different U.S. households contribute to climate change. Looking at maps of America’s cities, a pattern emerges. https://nyti.ms/3WespTo

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1602649572827856897

The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped

Where and how you live shapes your household’s contribution to climate change. Explore differences across the nation.

The New York Times
Dec 13, 2022 at 2:40pmWeb
Show threadsnipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ Dec 13, 2022

“the people who use electricity, drive cars, eat food and buy goods”

So, people. Got it.

Now do corporations like Nestle, Exxon, Shell, etc. Individual impact should matter to everyone, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to corporations. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says

A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change

The Guardian
Show threadinfinite_loopyDec 13, 2022

@snipe Yeah, it's a sort of coup that industry has foisted their responsibility to stop climate change onto the individual, and this has taken hold on both sides of the climate change debate.

Deniers didn't want to do anything to begin with, and some activists take it to heart that their individual actions can do more than just change one small slice of the issue at any given (and still arbitrary) moment