Quote: “”The wealthiest tenth of U.S. households are the source of 40 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published in the journal PLOS Climate.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quote: “”The wealthiest 1 percent of households were responsible for between 15 percent and 17 percent of emissions.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/4157562-us-climate-emissions-attributed-richest-households-study\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started thinking about this and guessed that some – probably more than the average – of the GHG emissions were from travel, by airplane, cruise ships and automobiles. Especially if the family has a lot of cars and they use them a lot, day-to-day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quote: “”The wealthiest tenth of U.S. households are the source of 40 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published in the journal PLOS Climate.”” Quote: “”The wealthiest 1 percent of households were responsible for between 15 percent and 17 percent of emissions.”” https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/4157562-us-climate-emissions-attributed-richest-households-study\/ I started thinking about this and guessed that some <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,23,255,545,2121,204,722,163,1978,1858,825,1],"tags":[2625,2627,2626,2624],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-conditioning","category-books-documents-literature","category-consumer-information","category-finance","category-greenhouse-gases","category-measurement-environment","category-newsmedia","category-politics","category-reduce-co2","category-research","category-science","category-uncategorized","tag-2625","tag-2627","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-wealthiest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18927,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions\/18927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}