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So .. adding a pronoun to every single email on the planet kills one person?
Can we nominate that person .. there's a few that come to mind.
On a more serious note, the article is crapping on about pronouns and land acknowledgements as if they're what's killing people.
Here's a thought, what about AI, or what about the biggest carbon emitting companies, 57 account for 80% of emissions?
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/
This article is nothing to do with killing people, it's everything to do with killing pronouns and eliminating land acknowledgements.
Please stop spreading this misleading tidbit. The original source is the Carbon Majors database.
https://influencemap.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913
It doesn't say that 80% of emissions are caused by 57 companies. But by 57 entities.
One such entity is "China". Another one is "The Former Soviet Union".
Unsurprisingly, the actual privately owned companies that show up in the data (which cause about a quarter of emissions) are all energy, oil and gas producers.
Unfortunately, the climate problem doesn't have a solution as easy as "stop a few rich CEOs from doing evil".
The former Soviet Union, its allies, those opposing it, and neutral parties account for all carbon emissions post 1917