# I pit the idea that "100 Companies are reponsible for 71% of global warming"

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**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-idea-that-100-companies-are-reponsible-for-71-of-global-warming/923339 "2020-10-19T18:19:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-idea-that-100-companies-are-reponsible-for-71-of-global-warming/923339/53 "2022-12-21T18:29:22Z")

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So I’d direct @Kropotkin to this thread, based on this [answer]([https://boards.straig](https://boards.straig) [buthtdope.com/t/what-are-you-personally-willing-to-give-up-to-combat-climate-change/976906/4?u=griffin1977](http://buthtdope.com/t/what-are-you-personally-willing-to-give-up-to-combat-climate-change/976906/4?u=griffin1977)). As I said this is a personal bug bear of mine:

> My personal bug bear. Giving up capitalism and the nation state would reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere by _exactly_ zero grams.
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> The global 10% (i.e. pretty much everyone in the developed world, if you earn over 100k you are in the global 1%) needs to actually start changing their lifestyle not just complain about “there’s no ethical consumption in capitalism”.
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> The atmosphere does not care if the oil that was burnt to increase it’s physical properties was produced by a big bad oil company or an artisanal employee owned cooperative.

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