Turns out, Americans use four times the energy they're supposed to in order to live a good and healthy life.
But this study measured when those benefits plateau. Scientists looked at nine benchmarks for a long, healthy life, based on the: access to electricity, air quality, food supply, Gini coefficient , happiness, infant mortality, life expectancy, prosperity and sanitation. All but air quality peaked and began leveling off at or below 75 gigajoules a year.
"It's not super hard to conclude that Americans are generally not as efficient with their energy use as they could be," said Sarah Ladislaw, managing director of the U.S. program at RMI, a nonpartisan organization that's pushing the country to transition to cleaner energy faster. But the good news, she said, is that"there's enormous room for the U.S. to improve on this.
Both Jackson and Ladislaw point to changes individuals and policymakers can make to lessen American consumption.
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