Study: Americans Should Work Less, Play More to Help the Environment

[struggle4progress]

Study: Americans Should Work Less, Play More to Help the Environment
February 5, 2013 - 12:58pm by Leader Staff

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“The calculation is simple: fewer work hours means less carbon emission, which means less global warming.”

Rosnik, who wrote the study, said that assuming that 40 to 60 percent of the potential global warming is already locked in, then about one-quarter to one-half of the warming that is not already locked in could be cut by scaling back hours. He added:

“For many years, European countries have been reducing work hours -- including by taking more holidays, vacation and leave – while the United States has gone the route of increased production, but it might be time for a change."

Now, of course there are some drawbacks to the plan:

“Obviously, if you are working less, you’re buying less. That’s the flip side.”

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http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20068

[yurbud]

1. you could work less and get paid the same or more if we got a greater share of the income

from our increases in productivity. we get a lot more done per hour than past decade but pay has remained relatively flat.