{"id":317,"date":"2022-09-15T21:33:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=317"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:55","slug":"4-19-the-cost-of-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/what-weve-done-about-it\/4-19-the-cost-of-consumerism\/","title":{"rendered":"4.19 The Cost of Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notes\">\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"\/contributors#annie-lowrey\" rel=\"author\">Annie Lowrey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">All online sources accessed on <time datetime=\"2022-03-04\">4 March 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<ol start=\"281\">\n<li>\n<p>\n<q>one third of all carbon emissions<\/q> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n<q>More than 60 per cent \u2026 stem from household demand<\/q> Ivanova, D., et al., <cite>\u2018Environmental impact assessment of household consumption\u2019<\/cite>, <span class=\"book\">Journal of Industrial Ecology<\/span>, 20 (3), 2016: 526\u201336, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jiec.12371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jiec.12371<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>with the most affluent bearing the greatest responsibility<\/q> Wiedmann, T., et al., <cite>\u2018Scientists\u2019 warning on affluence\u2019<\/cite>, <span class=\"book\">Nature Communications<\/span>, 11, 2020: Article 3107, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-16941-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-16941-y<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>An American one-per-center accounts for ten times<\/q> Chancel, L., and Piketty, T., Chancel, L., and Piketty, T., <cite><span class=\"book\">Carbon and Inequality: From Kyoto to Paris. Trends in the Global Inequality of Carbon Emissions (1998\u20132013) and Prospects for an Equitable Adaptation Fund<\/span><\/cite>, Paris School of Economics working paper, 3 November 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/piketty.pse.ens.fr\/files\/ChancelPiketty2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/piketty.pse.ens.fr\/files\/ChancelPiketty2015.pdf<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>A household in the US contains \u2026 300,000 individual items<\/q> Springer, S., <cite>\u2018Why is it so hard to stop buying more stuff?\u2019<\/cite>, <span class=\"book\">Boston Globe<\/span>, 18 May 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/18\/why-hard-stop-buying-more-stuff\/TikBKa6hUCSN2UkKoSBSeL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/18\/why-hard-stop-buying-more-stuff\/TikBKa6hUCSN2UkKoSBSeL\/story.html<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n<q>overwhelmed the beneficial effect of electric vehicles<\/q> Cozzi, L., and Petropoulos, A., <cite>\u2018Growing preference for SUVs challenges emissions reductions in passenger car market\u2019<\/cite>, International Energy Agency, 15 October 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/commentaries\/growing-preference-for-suvs-challenges-emissions-reductions-in-passenger-car-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.iea.org\/commentaries\/growing-preference-for-suvs-challenges-emissions-reductions-in-passenger-car-market<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Lowrey All online sources accessed on 4 March 2022 one third of all carbon emissions https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions. More than 60 per cent \u2026 stem from household demand Ivanova, D., et al., \u2018Environmental impact assessment of household consumption\u2019, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20 (3), 2016: 526\u201336, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jiec.12371. with the most affluent bearing the greatest responsibility Wiedmann,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":148,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}