(February 14, 2019 at 7:29 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(February 14, 2019 at 7:24 am)Yonadav Wrote: Wealth is the greatest correlating factor with carbon footprint. The wealthier you are, the bigger your carbon footprint. If free markets decreased global pollution, then your paper that argues the case for that wouldn't have been full of junk.
How? The wealthier you are, more likely you are to buy solar panels and use an electric or a hybrid car (and the hybrid car, rather than electric car, is probably the best type of car both environmentally and economically).
Sure, if you're wealthy you are more likely to virtue signal. And yet the carbon footprints of the wealthy are by far the largest. You're talking about some wealthy people doing some things to feel good about themselves. They aren't significantly lowering their carbon footprint.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
