Yeah it’s a dumb, thought-terminating stat that makes you sound naive, like you haven’t thought any of this through and your beliefs are fed by confirmation bias as you seek out stats online that support your initial view.

As leftists there is a pervasive stereotype that we don’t understand the real world, yet our natural strength is that the facts are in our side. We need to be doing the hard work of reading discussing and building coherent world views so when people talk to us they code leftists as those who have their facts straight.

The stat is from here. It is frequently misquoted and misunderstood, but more importantly (as per your analysis) this isn’t just private corporations being wasteful and blasting CO2 in the air because they’re moustache-twirling villains, this is private and public enterprises that extract fossil fuels for energy.

Even if it wasn’t, but it was just a measure of how much CO2 private companies produce, that would still mostly be reflective of the energy cost of producing goods for the imperial core, not waste from irresponsible corporations.

Edit: if people are looking for a coherent analysis of how production and fossil fuels are related I’d recommend reading the chapter China as Chimney of the World from Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital.