{"id":61829,"date":"2022-02-09T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61829"},"modified":"2022-02-09T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:30:44","slug":"fuel-poverty-the-cost-of-living-crisis-and-climate-change-a-data-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61829","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change:\u00a0A Data Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change:\u00a0A Data Blog<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Finding solutions to immediate problems and our future needs requires some difficult decisions, and if not thought-out, short-term thinking might create contradictory responses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Though often depoliticised by compartmentalising different problems, across society decisions on energy and the environment are innately tied to lifestyle and consumption. In looking at how we adapt to energy crises, or climate change, we have to focus on what relatively creates the greatest impact \u2013 nationally and globally.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a big fuss at the moment about a\u00a0\u2018cost of living crisis\u2019<\/a>1<\/sup>, and with it the expanding spectre of\u00a0fuel poverty<\/a>2<\/sup>. It\u2019s not possible to talk about either without connecting to energy and climate change. More importantly, this debate has traditionally ignored the \u2018injustice\u2019 behind the thoroughly unequal levels of consumption in Britain, and the world, and the deep connections this that has to both poverty and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Champagne, anyone?<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s a graph I love to throw at people \u2013 called the \u2019Champagne Glass Graph\u2019. It was first outlined in the United Nation\u2019s\u00a0Human Development Report<\/a>3<\/sup>\u00a0in 1992. That work was updated in 2015 by Oxfam, as part of their\u00a0\u2018Extreme Carbon Inequality\u2019<\/em><\/a>4<\/sup>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n

The United Nations, because it is made-up of nation states, is fixated by the \u2018nation state\u2019. But if you get rid of national boundaries, and just look at the lifestyle consumption of individuals, a clear trend emerges: Half of the carbon dioxide emissions are caused by just ten percent of the global population; and the bottom fifty percent of the global population only emit ten percent of the emissions.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change:\u00a0A Data Blog Finding solutions to immediate problems and our future needs requires some difficult decisions, and if not thought-out, short-term thinking might create contradictory responses. Though often depoliticised by compartmentalising different problems, across society decisions on energy and the environment are innately tied to lifestyle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[141,31697,1453],"class_list":["post-61829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-paul-mobbs","tag-resource-depletion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61830,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829\/revisions\/61830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}