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Wealthy Kiwis are driving up transport emissions, study finds (phys.org)
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The study of New Zealanders' travel habits found that total weekly travel emissions were 79% higher for people in affluent areas compared to those living in lower socio-economic areas.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess this is not that surprising. Globally, rich countries produce more emissions than poorer countries (per capita).

I did wonder whether EVs would have come into play here, but their 2015-2019 time period may be a little early for the increased EV adoption of the last 5 years or so.

Another factor is that there are a lot more people working from home now, and these jobs tend to be office jobs like IT that probably pay more. That should reduce a lot of transport emissions.

It would be interesting to see this study repeated.