The paper is here
Thanks to @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social for highlighting this bit:
Then there were “super-emitters” with extremely high overall greenhouse gas emissions, corresponding to about the top 0.1 percent of households. About 15 days of emissions from a super-emitter was equal to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10 percent in America.
so people who own large businesses like cruise lines, container ships, trucking companies, power plants, are responsible for the emissions. it makes sense but attributing all of emissions to that 1 person doesn’t account for a board of directors and shareholders who also can have a major say in how much they pollute.
is it at all possible that it is actually people ordering cruises and shit being delivered from china who are responsible? they are not sailing these ships there and back just out of spite. we are paying them.
The owners vote on the board of directors every year, so they do have control over policy like that.