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Yet my neighbor shamed me for riding a motorcycle once this year
Motorcycles, having far less weight per user, should be more efficient, no?
As long as you’re not riding a big bore super duper noisy exhaust idgaf.
A tiny 390 that eats like a gallon per 100km in a city. I also do not get stuck in traffic jams which also contributes.
The MythBusters did that one, obviously the info is a bit out of date now but IIRC over the three decades of models they tested they found that motorcycles, while more fuel efficient per mile, have none of the pollution controls of cars so they put out more emissions per mile than the average car of the same age.
Those guys were awesome, that’s a solid thing to look into
To give this some context, to be in the richest 1% for income, you need to earn about $80k USD equivalent per year or have a net wealth of about $1.2Million USD equivalent.
https://daadscholarship.com/how-much-money-need-to-earn-to-join-top-1-of-the-world-in-2025/
Our annual emissions per person for a sustainable emsiions budget is aboit 2-3t per year. Mostly were relying on the poor to do their bit eg the average Ethipoan emits aboit 0.2t per year. The average American about 15t.
Anyone who owns a large dog, or flys, or eats lots of beef, or drives a car is emitting morw then theiir share
We could start by banning all flying.
As Professor Kevin Anderson has talked of often, if we had the richest 10% live like the average European we could cut emissions by 40%, not enough but a good start and could be easiely implemented in a month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
I really think that's misinformation.
If you earn 80k$ USD but live in a city where your costs are 30k$USD for rent and food, and you pay taxes of 40% (leaves you with 48k$USD), that's 18k$USD. That's 1.5k$ /month that still has to pay for insurances, transport, etc. Where I live, it's at 400€/month at least just for the car because public transport sucks ass here. Insurances are about 200€/month for me but I assume that can be more if you're at 80k$USD.
All in all, about 1k$ or less per month disposable income. Is that really 1%er life?
That means that I'm in the top 10% along with nearly everybody in my country and my life isn't glorious. Far from it. If 80k$USD is 1% and just 12k difference means you have to start cutting back on stuff like sharing the apartment, getting cheaper insurances, living in a cheaper place further away from work, buying cheaper groceries, not going to the restaurant or ordering in, cancelling subscriptions and so on, then 1% really doesn't mean much.
And all that is a single person! Imagine having a family. 80k would be nowhere near enough to start a family, raise children with activities, pay for tuition or anything else. That's 1%? No way.
If I earned 80k in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where I live, sure, that would be amazing. That's not going to happen though.
IMO statements like that are from napkin calculations that use averages or medians that do not correct for anything and ignore exponentials. I'd really like to see classification of 1% by net income. I bet it would be very different than just gross income across all countries.
Thanks for the info. Living in the US without a car I'm left wondering how much time it takes for me to use my share. I'd wager I haven't passed it yet but I'm not naive enough to think it's much more than a month.
For their lifetime, tbh.
I had to look this up:
According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2024, the median estimate of emissions level in 2030 consistent with limiting global heating to around 1.5°C is 24 GtCO2e (range: 20–26), which is equivalent to approximately 17.8 GtCO2 based on the 2019 share of CO2 emissions in greenhouse gas emissions (74.1 per cent). According to the UN, the global population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030. Dividing the 1.5°C compatible 2030 emissions level (17.8 GtCO2) equally by 8.5 billion gives an estimate of an annual carbon budget of 2.1t CO2 per person.
Don't worry, they're working on ideas to decrease the population as we speak. Unfortunately, war isn't great for climate preservation, either.
The world's richest 1 % have a net worth of just over 1 million USD or more. The world's richest 10 % have a net worth of around 83 000 USD or more.