I have no problem going back to my 1997 lifestyle and cant point to much explaining this growth. Is it more people getting access to western luxury or are we just that much more wastefull?
Mainly to rapidly developing countries like China and India. Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit, China and India have increased 3 fold.
> I have no problem going back to my 1997 lifestyle and cant point to much explaining this growth.
Approximately nobody in develping countries feels that way.
Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that is to promote the lifestyle of developed countries.
Oxfam estimates that 1% of the richest people emit double the carbon emission of the half the poorest of humanity
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...