{"id":4957,"date":"2021-04-15T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2021-04-15T22:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:59:45","slug":"whats-your-fair-share-of-carbon-emissions-youre-probably-blowing-way-past-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4957","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s your \u201cfair share\u201d of carbon emissions? You\u2019re probably blowing way past it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The world\u2019s wealthy need cuts of over 90 percent of their carbon emissions, to get to their carbon fair share. The top-skew is so huge that the world\u2019s richest 1 percent cause double the carbon burden of the poorest 50 percent combined (that\u2019s 3.5 billion people<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most \u201cmiddle class\u201d Americans are in the global top 1 or 10 percent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So what the hell can anyone do? The main answer for the majority of folks reading this is to cut your personal consumption, and to press for political and systemic changes to get off the \u201chedonic treadmill,\u201d at least until we\u2019ve stabilized. The \u201chedonic treadmill\u201d refers to the effect that increases in consumption often result in no permanent gain in happiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve all felt negligible or fleeting satisfaction from consumption, but sadly the carbon impacts are far from fleeting \u2014 they will last centuries. It\u2019s critical to avoid mindless overconsumption<\/a>. Many carbon footprint calculators<\/a> are available to help you figure out your own carbon impact.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22291568\/climate-change-carbon-footprint-greta-thunberg-un-emissions-gap-report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The world\u2019s wealthy need cuts of over 90 percent of their carbon emissions, to get to their carbon fair share. The top-skew is so huge that the world\u2019s richest 1 percent cause double the carbon burden of the poorest 50 percent combined (that\u2019s 3.5 billion people).<\/p>\n

Most \u201cmiddle class\u201d Americans are in the global top 1 or 10 percent.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“So what the hell can anyone do? The main answer for the majority of folks reading this is to cut your personal consumption, and to press for political and systemic changes to get off the \u201chedonic treadmill,\u201d at least until we\u2019ve stabilized. The \u201chedonic treadmill\u201d refers to the effect that increases in consumption often result in no permanent gain in happiness.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all felt negligible or fleeting satisfaction from consumption, but sadly the carbon impacts are far from fleeting \u2014 they will last centuries. It\u2019s critical to avoid mindless overconsumption. Many carbon footprint calculators are available to help you figure out your own carbon impact.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,104,363],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-inequality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}