{"id":9658,"date":"2020-05-15T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:04","slug":"luxury-lifestyle-of-the-rich-largely-responsible-for-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/05\/15\/luxury-lifestyle-of-the-rich-largely-responsible-for-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Lifestyle of The Rich Largely Responsible For The Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers have discovered a trend where the more money people have; the higher their carbon footprint is. A University of Leeds study shows that the lifestyles of the world\u2019s wealthiest are mainly responsible for the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among all eighty-six countries and income classes studied, the bottom 10% consumed about 20 times less energy than the top 10%. \u201cOur results consequently expose large inequality in international energy footprints,\u201d the authors explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to one of the researchers, Julia Steinberger, the study looked at energy consumption \u201cused to manufacture and transport traded products,\u201d as well as the amount of energy directly used. She notes that \u201cricher households, around the world, tend to spend their extra [money] on energy-intensive products,\u201d including shopping online, vacations, and fuel for their automobiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most critical factors in this difference is people who have more money, spend more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/category\/sustainability\/transport\/\">transportation<\/a>\u00a0in air, land, and sea. From private jets to luxury yachts, expensive cars, and trips to Mars, rich people have all kinds of options when it comes to transportation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/rich-largely-responsible-for-climate-crisis\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a trend where the more money people have; the higher their carbon footprint is. A University of Leeds study shows that the lifestyles of the world\u2019s wealthiest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}