![]() ![]() The least energy intensive locations per square foot were in three balmier states: Florida, Arizona and California. The analysis found the most energy intensive homes per square foot were found in Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin where cold winters require significant heating, reports Oliver Milman for the Guardian. “The poor are more exposed to the dangers of the climate crisis, like heat waves, more likely to have chronic medical problems that make them more at risk to be hospitalized or die once exposed to heat, and often lack the resources to protect themselves or access health care,” Renee Salas, an emergency room physician and climate health researcher at Harvard University who wasn’t part of the study, tells the AP. ![]() Though wealthier Americans are responsible for the greatest share of planet-warming emissions, they are less likely to suffer the consequences. "Income and greenhouse gases rise together." "This is like a tale of two cities in carbon form," Benjamin Goldstein, an environmental scientist at the University of Michigan and a co-author of the study, tells CNN. One of the biggest factors linking high greenhouse gas emissions to the lifestyles of the rich was their tendency to own larger homes. The researchers calculated the energy consumption of individual homes using 2015 tax records and calculated the home’s emissions by incorporating a range of factors, including the building’s age, size and type as well as the local climate and the power grid supplying the home’s electricity.īased on federal definitions of income level, the study found that the average high-income household spews some 6,482 pounds of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere annually, while the average home of lower income individuals accounted for 5,225 pounds per year, reports Seth Borenstein for the Associated Press. in 2015 and analyzed them according to their location and income. The study, published this week in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calculated the emissions associated with 93 million housing units across the U.S. The greenhouse gases from American homes each year exceed the total emitted by the country of Germany, according to Mongabay. pumps into the atmosphere annually, reports Valerie Volcovici for Reuters. Planet-warming emissions from households account for one-fifth of the total that the U.S. Some of the richest suburbs in the United States have carbon footprints 15-times the size of less affluent neighboring districts, reports Isabelle Chapman for CNN. The homes of rich Americans are responsible for nearly 25 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than those of poorer people, according to a new study. ![]()
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