Don’t blame men for the climate crisis – we should point the finger at corporations

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/27/dont-blame-men-for-the-climate-crisis-we-should-point-the-finger-at-corporations

Arwa Mahdawi

Male spending – on petrol and meat – is apparently worse for the environment than women’s. But it’s the system, not individuals, that needs to change

Man eating a burger while driving
‘The problem isn’t that certain men spend more on motoring and meat – it’s the obsession with economic growth at any cost.’Photograph: Srinrat Wuttichaikitcharoen/Getty Images/EyeEm

Tue 27 Jul 2021 11.30 EDT

Sorry, boys, but it’s all your fault.Melting ice caps,flash floods,rising sea levels: men are to blame for the lot of it. Please don’t drown the messenger, I’m just relayingthe results of a Swedish studythat found that men’s spending habits cause 16% more climate-heating emissions than women’s. The biggest difference seems to be that men spend more money on petrol. Another big difference: the men surveyed bought more meat than women. So this is the way the world ends, eh? Not with a…

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