Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Ecofeminist thinking and practice have long been central inspirations for focused, critical work on men and masculinities, and the environment …”
Gender emissions gap: Rich white men’s jobs, diets and hobbies found to be ‘bad for the planet’
By Liam Gilliver
Published on 06/05/2026 – 9:40 GMT+2Men were also found to have “less concern with climate change” and be “less ambitious and less active in environmental politics”.
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A new paper by more than 20 scientists from 13 different countries has analysed existing research on climate change, global warming, and environmental collapse – and how they connect with what men do.
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“There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men’s behaviour on the environment and climate,” says Professor Jeff Hearn, the paper’s editor and a professor of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield.
“What is astonishing is how this aspect does not figure in most debates and policy in a more sustainable world.”
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Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/06/gender-emissions-gap-rich-white-mens-jobs-diets-and-hobbies-found-to-be-bad-for-the-planet
The abstract of the study;
Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences
Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer
Pages 254-268 | Published online: 11 Nov 2025
In recent decades, the notion of the Anthropocene has become widely known and used in academic debates, and also in mainstream discourses, to refer to a human-induced ecological crisis of planetary dimensions. The unprecedented effects that humans are imposing on the Earth are beyond question. The planetary emergency concerns injustices (the 5% richest create 20% of the emissions; and the richest 10% create 50%), privileges (only 8–9% of people fly, yet aviation is the largest source of individual emissions, and importantly linked to masculinities, captured in the term ‘aeromasculinities′) (Hopkins et al., Citation2023), and power (fossil fuel industries’ denial and obstruction of climate science and politics)
If you think the above quote is gibberish, try reading the full paper – and let me know what lines like “Posthumanist, new materialist, degrowth and ecological men and masculinities” or “Ecofeminist thinking and practice have long been central inspirations for focused, critical work on men and masculinities, and the environment” mean.
Clearly I need to work on my random climate psychology paper generator, my effort just doesn’t make the grade anymore.
On a serious note, in my opinion the entire premise of the paper is absurd and racist. Last time I checked black people like hotrods and guy toys just as much as white guys. My friend G once lost it because he was fed up with police pulling him over for driving while black. I pointed out they probably just wanted to check out his showroom new custom supercharged Ford Mustang.
Once again, the socialists declare that being thinking differently than they do, is a disease that must be treated and if not cured, locked away.
Everything I don’t like is a socialist
“Everything I don’t like is a socialist”
That makes net zero sense.
Sounds like he’s mocking conservatives. In a previous story he uploaded an AI image of the dumb people who hang out here- his impression. He thinks he’s impressing us with his wit and profound sarcasm. It’s not working.
It’s a Greentard joke when they like to pretend they are more intellectual than those they are talking to
Healthcare is a luxury good. Luxuries are not necessities. (Mankind survived 300 000 years without it.)
How do we know? Only the rich can afford luxury goods. Only the rich can afford healthcare.
Vide: poor Countries don’t have healthcare; poor USAians need freebie Medicaid.
USAians pay more per capita for their healthcare than europeans and don’t get universal health care for that.
Just like everything you don’t like is Nazi
(and that’s exactly how you think, despite your strategical hypocrisy of avoiding the term itself .But your level of sheer ignorance and adamant believe in AGW are proof that you follow the any bit narrative ; just in a bit more polite way )-
so what’s the reason for your complain?
#ME TOO
Socialists are socialists, I don’t like populists either and they would shoot socialists on site.
‘…and they would shoot socialists on site.’
Not necessarily, if one defines ‘populism’ as broad-based political movements that oppose the narrow interests of established elites. This is how the New York Times, among others, usually gets away with applying the same term to both ‘enlightened’ Leftists agitating for free stuff and ‘ignorant’ Republicans longing to be left alone by woke Democrats.
I think I will burn some rubber with my 700 HP hot rod while screaming around the neighborhood and then tap a keg of brew and build a bonfire to enjoy the evening with.
The cure is The Population Bomb.
Long since defused.
It is still on the internet.
IT LIVES!
The treatment would consist of 6 doses of leadicillin administered in rapid succesion.
(c) Steve Inman
“Gender emissions gap: Rich white men’s jobs, diets and hobbies found to be ‘bad for the planet’
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Wouldn’t you know it. The merger of misandrist ideology and hate with environmentalism and the climate alarmist narrative. Just when you think the eco-ideologists and climate alarmists have hit rock bottom, they sink even lower. There is no end to it.
Published in the International Journal for Masculinity Studies. Unfortunately, I don’t subscribe to it, so I have to reserve any judgement.
Why do I get the impression that the preponderance of authors in that journal are women?
Or “men-pretending-to-be-women”
“International Journal for Masculinity Studies”
Probably written by a bunch of effeminate limp-wristed gits, who wouldn’t even know what the word “masculine” meant.
I wonder if it’s ever had an article explaining why, after women got the vote, Congress can’t balance it’s checkbook? 😎
Journal for Emasculation Studies
“There is a limit to good taste, but there is no limit to bad taste.”
Often quoted in the Spartan Marching Band
Hearn’s first citation is, “Aavik, K. (2023). Contesting Anthropocentric masculinities through veganism: Lived experiences of vegan men.”
It’s an entire book. There must be a lot to say about the veganization of men.
This gets at climate-as-a-religion at a strange angle, sorry if it offends:
If you walk into an old Catholic cathedral anywhere on earth during mass time, it will probably not contain many young, straight, white, wealthy males.
(Religion of all types draws in lonely old feminists? Sorry again negatives will be understood.)
When was the last time you were in a church?
Your description does not describe any church that I have attended over the last 40 years.
I’ve been there. ‘Identifies as’ or ‘come from a family that identifies’ remains strong, but ‘actually shows up more than twice a year’ looks very old and white and female or young and latino. I don’t want to blow up this opinion too far, but per google:
“U.S. Catholics are generally older than the general population, with a median age of 49. However, Hispanic Catholics are significantly younger than white Catholics.”
If the median of all includes the subset that skews younger, then ‘all without subset’ must skew even older than the median implies. Google was silent on gender, but anything that skews older skews female – they live longer.
The point isn’t about US Catholicism it’s rather that causes that become social clubs attract specific demographics (for whatever reason – not part of my thought process).
Edit – ie this forum seems to trend adult white male professional or former professional. Why? Not my problem.
Perhaps, and this is just a guess, adult white male professional still have critical thinking skills? Maybe?
Someone ‘on the other side’ might pick a less flattering characteristic for the correlation study.
No ‘for example’ on that one – there are entire websites urgent to explain.
While there may be truth to that, it is not exclusively so. Except for being adult, I don’t fit that demographic myself, being red female skilled trade for the rest of it. It also seems to me that I would likely not rate several other people who seem show up with some regularity in that class if I met them.
predominantly retired white males of extremely high intelligence 🙂
the creme of the human crop 🙂
“predominantly retired white males of extremely high intelligence “
Thanks you Joseph 🙂
The “climate-as-a-religion” angle that needs exposition is that it is a faith based fundamentalist disconnect from empirical reality that brands unbelievers as heretics to keep the ignorant flock in line. Measurements to them are the work of the devil.
“If you walk into an old Catholic cathedral anywhere on earth during mass time, it will probably not contain many young, straight, white, wealthy males.”
I don’t think that is true anymore. There seems to be a spiritual revival among young people going on now.
Lots of people are looking for spiritual guidance.
Yep
These idiots don’t live in the real world. Virtue signaling has replaced reason. They wouldn’t recognize a false narrative if it hit them in the head like a sledgehammer.
How about assessing all of the products, cosmetics, medical treatment, clothing, and shoes that women buy and use? Let us check that out and total up the ecofriendliness/greenness/ climate impact.
How many of you pretty women know that your face powder cosmetic is probably built from dirt (clay) possibly containing asbestos impurity? That your lipstick might have contained pig fat? Or guanidine, sometimes derived from earthworms? Lipstick bright red from crushed beetles? In earlier more equitable times, mercury at harm levels was used as skin whitener by females and males? Pricey perfume based on whale vomit? Bull semen used in protein-rich hair treatments?
Yucky enough, but look at the exorbitant prices typically attached to female beauty products.
And some of you women think that men are stupid?
Are you Aussie women now hoping for a cosmetic present on this Mothers’ Day weekend 2 days from now?
Please do not believe all that you read, including the word salad pap of the article under discussion here on WUWT. Geoff S
” your face powder cosmetic is probably built from dirt (clay) possibly containing asbestos impurity”
They have used “coal tar” and “coal ash” in cosmetics for a long time.
The Benefits and Risks of Using Coal Tar in Skincare – Nerd Skincare
Not to mention kohl – lead sulfide – as an eye liner.
There are very few Australian women who are anything like the Real Housewives of USA(Wherever)
They dress for the weather or the job or the party, whatever
ive always laughed at how we wash ourselves so clean then smear all sorts of dirt n byproducts on our faces ..but then..I AM a label reader, most women I klnow , dont . they just think a high price – good stuff
We need research into the effects of women’s mani pedis on climate change. These are by the way, not even remotely related to wealth, as regularly observed on the hands of store clerks and Walmart patrons. (I also wonder. Has anyone ever studied the climate impact of tattoos and tattoo parlors? It could rival cow farts.)
Those evil matriarchal women are destroying the Earth.
From my vantage point, the emergent feminazi matriarchy in the west is not only deadly to children (witness the number of preterm and post term abortions), but also deadly to the thriving of western civilization. Surprise surprise, it turns out both men and women have a sin nature. When they rebel against God and attempt to live a purely relativistic and mechanistic lifestyle, their worst traits emerge.
Is the following hate speech that voids free speech?
Per US census blacks are a scant 13% of the US population.
Per FBI table 43a blacks account for 28% of the violent crimes.
From the same data on a per million basis the rate of murder and robbery for the black demographic is 6.5 times that of the white demographic.
Per heyjackass.com 77% of the gun carnage in Chicago is black on black.
Per Guttmacher Institute black women lose pregnancies at 3 times the rate of white.
Is pointing this out hate speech or just embarrassing and scandalous?
Can data, i.e. cold hard numbers, be hateful & racist?
Why is the MSM silent about this??
What is your interpretation of these numbers
What’s there to interpret?
They are the most violent, the most racist(look up the black on white and white on black rape ratio).
They commit the most crimes against gays and treat them generally like shit in their communities(After Brandan Straka) and have almost a monopol in transkilling.
The welfare state that destroyed their families
in combination with blaxploitation movies gloryfying criminal behavior and the follow up with the omnipresent mind poisoning hiphop ( replacement ) – gang&drug culture (calling this degenerated shit culture is peak orwellian)
was 100* more destructive than KKK and Jim Crow combined
and turned them into the very stereotypes their enemies always claimed they are.
It would be interesting to see what those stats were before LBJ’s “War on Poverty”.
Mainstream media censors those facts. I’ve tried to put them into comment sections and have gotten rejected almost every time. The racism happening is not having strong enough police enforcement of violent blacks murdering each other in horrific numbers. I went through BLM’s entire website and found not one mention of the leading cause of death for young blacks.
Overview of FBI Murder Statistics
The FBI’s crime data provides insights into the demographics of murder victims and offenders. In 2019, the statistics indicated that:
Key StatisticsCategory Percentage Black or African American murder victims 54.7%
Black or African American offenders 55.9%
Table 43 shows blacks commit 51.2% of arrested murders and 52.7% of robberies.
FBI — Table 43
My car was stolen in Philadelphia back in 1970 by a black kid of 14 who just got out of juvenile detention. He died in a horrible crash.. Me (white) had to wait at the police station to show my keys to the sergeant *to show that I had not left them in the car). While waiting, I read the bulletin board on the wall and it contain pretty much the same thing, saying you had a one in three chance of being mugged each year in the city and that the chance of being robbed was 30 times higher if black (black on black). It made sense—why go elsewhere to steal a TV when your black neighbor just stole one, thus, steal that one. Back then if a white was walking down the street and a group of black guys was approaching, it was wise to cross the street. But, if even one black girl was in the group, they would all behave rightly. Today, it’s the black girls who are the most rabid, self-entitled, and violently reactionary.
“Back then if a white was walking down the street and a group of black guys was approaching, it was wise to cross the street.”
Barack Obama said that he even did that one day in Chicago.
OK, So what is a rich white male?
Based on behavior of even those males on unemployment benefits, it seems to be almost all males.
I’m also a bit confused as these are the very same people who can’t tell male from female,
but as soon as it fits the narrative they instantly know on such a large scale.
Of course this would be totally racist/antisemitic/homophob/islamophob etc if rich black/jewish/gay/muslims were the culprits.
In this case it wouldn’t be a scientific paper but a hate crime.
yeah …funny that huh? 😉
“So what is a rich white male?”
Bernie Sanders ???
Pelosi’s husband?
AOC’s boyfriend?
George Soros?
I likes this bit in the paper:
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.They left out ‘we don’t like men’. Seems to be a conflict of interest to em.
They are incapable of accepting facts that conflict with their ideologies or having any interest in those facts.
‘Men were also found to have “less
concern with climate changepropensity towards neurotic fantasies” and “lessambitious and less active in environmental politicstime to engage is said fantasies (because they work)”.’The main purpose of feminising men is to create a society that is more prone to fear, more likely to follow hypes and that does not fight back.
I am just so, so sorry, ma’am, for my birth sex, my race, and for having the ambition to provide a living for my wife and children and to have planned carefully for retirement. I now realize I am lower than dirt for having used all that reliable, affordable fuel in the process.
/end_sarc (obviously)
Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: A Complete Load Of Old Bolleaux.
QED
The officials charged with curating the scientific nomenclature of geological time spans has studied and rejected the term and concept of “Anthropocene”. It follows that “Manthropocene” is also formally a no-no.
Why cannot you female authors learn that “No” means “No”, not “Maybe”?
I am from the school of loving women and Vive la Difference. The opposite of hate.
But I have a headache after reading this article, so don’t ask.
Geoff S
Here, let me buy you a beer.
How bad does Europe need to get before these lefties see the light? It will all have to burn down first, then the USA will have to go put out the flames and rebuild europe again.
They never will because they are incapable to see. But they will surely disappear when the productive members of society stop feeding them.
It seems possible that in 25 years, Europeans will have converted en masse to Islam. As Muslims, they’ll be re-energized for kinetic war.
Islam makes intelligent people stupid and stupid people violent. So, Muslim Europeans will end up stupid and violent but, extrapolating from the history of the Middle East, it’ll take 200 years for them to exterminate their technological and scientific classes (the independent thinkers), and for their society to then descend into backwardness.
Europe is the source of the Enlightenment and a treasure-house of culture. What an incomparable tragedy their loss would be.
dont bother the only ones left will be the illegals let them rebuild ( yeah /s)
Don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t… Damn, failed again.
The ‘Western white man’! Too bad we can’t pin even more than all the misery in the world on him. My correspondent from Alpha Centauri told me they’ve got quite a few incompetent government officials over there too, and that it would really help their planetary reconciliation if our Earth social science departments came up with a concept of ‘interplanetary white guilt.’
“The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that Earth is being used as an insane asylum by Alien civilizations.”
G. B. Shaw
might have to chat Elon about that ;-)))
I suppose that we live in ‘Jargonville,’ or is it the lack of a course in Jargonology?
“In recent decades, the notion of the Anthropocene has become widely known and used in academic debates, and also in mainstream discourses, to refer to a human-induced ecological crisis of planetary dimensions.” It is true that Arthropocence is an ‘ad hoc’ term used in some otherwise ‘respectable’ scientific papers, even those outside of climate, to what degree I don’t keep records. I doubt that is as “widely” as they claim. It doesn’t take much of a geology course covering the Geological Time Periods and enormous situation that occurred as they change to know it’s nonsense. Even the Holocene (Recent) has been suspect as the geologically short time postglacial with at least many more centuries than the ‘Anthropocene,’ that is if writers using the term have any, I mean any, education in geological understanding that preceded the much shorter years of ‘Anthropocene.’
“Clearly I need to work on my random climate psychology paper generator, my effort just doesn’t make the grade anymore. ” It might be that you could take such a course in a Department of Jargonology. They wouldn’t use random since they seem to lack knowledge of the term but might define these, among others the paper used.
“……. Our concepts stand in need to, insomuch as the Asteroid of enlightment relies on our deductive judgements, the harms in themselves…..Transcendental Deduction, a blind but indispensable function of the soul……the objects in the study domain exist in the strangle…..” Jargon “a. confused unintelligible language.” Bigotry is independent of race.
For related humour, if you have not already read it, try the 2018 published paper ‘Petri Dishes for Canine Rape Culture’. It is competition for silly feminist junk. Geoff S
Avoiding all the jargonville stuff, let us make a small point.
Since the estimated time of the beginning of Homo sapiens sapiens and our spread out of Africa, the proxies of the climate of the inhabitable land show that climate variability is at a minimum.
By luck or divine providence, the universe has allowed fairly stable and fairly agreeable conditions for the spread of our species to most of the continents along pathways of Mediterranean mildness and lack of ELE events.
A positive reference to the notion of “the Anthropocene” relegates all that follows to nonsense.
And that which precedes it.
I thought racial profiling was very bad, immoral even.
I guess what they really want is all males to transition to females.
So, I am a racist just because I am white and especially because I am white and male.
Now I can add that I am a climate criminal just because I am white and especially because I am white and male.
Disclosure.
We are all brown, some darker, some lighter, and who the fuck cares what shade your skin is?
Sorry.
Really pissed off by this confluence of climate activism with systemic racism activism.
I guess the expression I coined a while back, “Trans-Reality Activist” is soon to be adapted.
Universities no longer teach objective journalism (just the facts, ma’am).
It is all about advocacy journalism.
What is advocacy journalism? Writing an opinion piece and instead of placing it on the opinion or editorial page, land it on the front page with a properly hyperbolic headline.
Let me get this straight (can we use that word anymore?)…
I buy a car and give it to my wife. She is the sole driver, but I am the one with the huge “carbon footprint” merely because I paid for it?
If I buy groceries and my family eats the food, I am the climate criminal for being such a consumer?
Time for a beer.
So, if I buy a used ICE vehicle for $15,000 I am a “climate criminal” due to “carbon pollution.”
But it I buy an EV for $60,000, I am a 4x “climate criminal” due to my consumerism.
Caesar has crossed the Rubicon.
“Time for a beer.”
And you deserve it ! :-)…. for all the crap you have to put up with.
You too. Tip one for the cause of sanity.
Except CO2 emissions are good for the planet. !
The planets life exists on CO2, and there is currently a below optimum level in the atmosphere.
So to all you people who are White and Male…..Thank you for helping the planet.
White and male and wealthy (oh, were that it were so).
ok a funny
I did an IQ personality test some yrs back as a white female 50ish ed stopped at high school with a few courses later.
their result I was a white male 70 yrs uni educated
yeah
i DID laugh a lot
I’m doing my part! 🙂
I have transitioned 3 major times since birth.
I was born a white male baby soon to evolve into a white male adolescent.
I then transitioned to white male adult.
My last transition was to white male curmudgeon.
None of those are genders.
This type of deranged pseudoscience schlock is the type of thing that gives science a bad name.
I love the innumeracy in their one attempt at math:
By simple subtraction, the second-richest 5% create 30% of the emissions, substantially more than the richest 5%!
Extrapolating, I shudder to think of what the third-richest 5% emit, and especially the poorest 5%!
Well, extrapolating it all the way, the poorest 5% would produce 210% of the emissions 🙂
That may actually true, renormalized anyway, because the more prosperous the society the more they care for the environment.
“Professor Jeff Hearn, the paper’s editor and a professor of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield.”
“Professor of Sociology” explains it all. There’s hardly a department of Sociology in the world, if even one, that is not a swamp of progressive vipers.
The Enlightenment has been exterminated, and reason and science have long since disappeared over the horizon in the world these people inhabit.
An April 2026 paper: Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences”
There, we learn that, “the notion of the Anthropocene has become widely known and … refer[s] to a human-induced ecological crisis of planetary dimensions…[and ]…(… aviation is the largest source of individual emissions, and importantly linked to masculinities, captured in the term ‘aeromasculinities′) …and power (fossil fuel industries’ denial and obstruction of climate science and politics).
“All of this has much to do with men and masculinities …”
This abusive characterization is the excrescence of the American Psychological Association, which has diagnosed masculinity itself as a disease state.
Jeff Hearn’s citation list includes: “Aavik, K. (2025). Linking men, masculinities and non-human animals in the Capitalocene: Implications for critical studies on men and masculinities. Men and Masculinities”
Clearly, the Capitolocene caused the Anthropocene.
There must be a nutcase kool aid factory out there somewhere turning out 57 varieties of brain-mushing beverages. Because these folks seem to have slugged down several flavors.
The whole field appears to be the product of semi-intelligent ideologically fixated critically-enfeebled pseudo-scholars. Its cause can only be a transmissible mind-toxin infecting the already susceptible.
If there was ever a reason to defund the universities of public money…
By the way, the APA’s diagnosis of maleness as a disease state is falsified in (2025) Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, and the Serial Offender Personality: Derivations and Predictions from Evolutionary Psychology
“There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men’s behaviour on the environment and climate,”
This statement doesn’t say a damn thing about CAGW but says a whole lot about what passes for research these days.
“Female hysterics dominating the mass media approach to climate”
There, have I done better in the sexism contest of the 21st century?
Any time we hear a liberal arts academic commenting on the deleterious effect of climate change, we should prepare ourselves for a good laugh. Then we should promptly forget about the proclamation because it’s guaranteed to be asinine and have no scientific support.