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Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study.

Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age. The study broke down the transport emissions into international and domestic flights, private road transport and public transport.

The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners, and 12 times more than average. The data finds that income is directly linked to levels of mobility, with people who earn more than £100,000 travelling on average at least double the distance each year compared with those on incomes under £30,000.

Those in the most deprived 10% are responsible for by far the fewest emissions, though flying still makes up more than half of their total emissions.

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[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Wealthy non-whites don't cause as much transport pollution as their melanin-lacking counterparts?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, it looks like the Guardian is the only one making this expressly about white men. I'm guessing demographically speaking, white men are the majority when it comes to transport pollution by rich people because the majority of rich people are white men.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unfortunately bringing race into stuff still attracts more clicks from conservative and/or non-caucasian cohorts, in this case. The "rich white male" and "white privilege" stereotypes are just positive racism that's sadly still kicking around for this reason, despite the majority of people obviously not sharing any of the traits since birth, as if they get to decide that part of their life anyway. But we do see it a lot less, which makes me wonder who's going to be targeted by "racism, not racism" next. Hopefully never anything again like people from Muslim nations copped a couple decades ago. Thanks, media.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

came to say this. One of the filters seems meaningless.

[–] applepie@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they do but the headline would less click baiting if just said rich parasites are destroying the world...

90% of people would ask... does the bear shit in the woods?

But now we can do a circle jerk about some poor losers' "white pride" feelz being hurt.

Cheers!

[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are in for quite a treat if you ever get to live in the world without being so ignorsntly racist. It truly is a much better place when wipe that shit off of your heart. We are all one big family, hating people because of how they were born hurts nobody as much as it hurts you.

[–] applepie@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is hating anybody here besides u being butthurt it seems

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

They do, but just the men.