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Bill Gates uses 10,000 times energy of average American--How Bout Y'all?

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"Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxurious mansion, whether you subsist on homegrown vegetables or wolf down imported steaks, whether you're a jet-setter or a sedentary retiree, anyone who lives in the U.S. contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as the global average, an MIT class has estimated.

The class studied the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles--from the homeless to multimillionaires, from Buddhist monks to soccer moms--and compared them to those of other nations. The somewhat disquieting bottom line is that in the United States, even people with the lowest energy usage account for, on average, more than double the global per-capita carbon emission. And those emissions rise steeply from that minimum as people's income increases.

"Regardless of income, there is a certain floor below which the individual carbon footprint of a person in the U.S. will not drop," says Timothy Gutowski, professor of mechanical engineering, who taught the class that calculated the rates of carbon emissions. The results will be presented this May at the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment in San Francisco."

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/footprint-tt0416.htm...

Calculate your own carbon footprint here:
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

And turn down your screen brightness while you're at it!
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2 responses // Bill Gates uses 10,000 times energy of average American--How Bout Y'all?

  • So does his resource hog Windows Vista!
    96thdayofrage
  • Total secondary footprint = 4.457 tonnes of CO2

    ugh... that is only on stuff like packaging and recycling. what if i had done all of the other sections?

    meh, i worry yet rarely take many productive steps. i am at a good place with my eco-destructive habits. [:
    jamigraphic

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