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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries (lemmy.world)
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[–] ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shipping? Shipping is about 2 % of global CO~2~ emissions.

Large ships emit a lot of sulphur oxides (SO~x~). E.g. cruise ships emit more than all cars of Europe. SO~x~ is not a greenhouse gas, but it’s a nasty pollutant nonetheless.