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This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions.

Source IEA: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/suvs-are-setting-new-sales-records-each-year-and-so-are-their-emissions

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[–] schwim@lemm.ee 63 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding this but weren't the SUVs already calculated in the countries' bars? Of course something globally combined that burns fuel is going to be significant. I imagine sedans and coupes wouldn't be very far behind. This smacks of a "Statistically, everyone has one testicle" type of thing.

Are we just picking out things that we can add to the graph? Like, can I choose farts or barbques?

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Say you remove SUVs from the other countries' calculations. That would make SUVs look even worse.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Or perhaps you begin arbitrarily counting other things twice in your calculations. Then they look better.

My point isn't that item X doesn't pollute, just that the graph in question is less useful in it's nature and aimed at being alarmist.

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