114 Gas-Guzzling Jets and Superyachts,” The Sun, August 2, 2019, https://www.thesun.co.uk.

1018

“Climate Change: Why Have Prince Harry and Meghan Been Criticised for Using a Private Jet?” BBC, August 20, 2019, https://www.bbc.com.

1019

Michael Hamilton, “DUMBO JET: ‘Eco-warriors’ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Fly on Private Jet Again to France After Gas-Guzzling Ibiza Trip,” The Sun, August 17, 2019, https://www.thesun.co.uk.

1020

Michael Hamilton, “DUMBO JET: ‘Eco-warriors’ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Fly on Private Jet Again to France After Gas-Guzzling Ibiza Trip,” The Sun, August 17, 2019, https://www.thesun.co.uk.

1021

Reality Check Team, “Prince Harry and Private Jets: What’s the Carbon Footprint?” BBC, August 20, 2019, https://www.bbc.com.

1022

Suzy Byrne, “Ellen DeGeneres, Pink Join Elton John in Defending Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over Private Jet Drama: ‘Imagine Being Attacked for Everything You Do,’ ” Yahoo! Entertainment, August 20, 2019, https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment.

1023

Lynette (@Lynette55), “So stop lecturing us on how we live our lives and live by example. No private jets every couple of weeks etc etc. You only have what you have because of us, the people, both celebrities and the Royals,” Twitter, August 19, 2019, 2:09 p.m., https://twitter.com/Lynette55/status/1163558755583373312.

1024

Associated Press, “Gore gets green kudos for home renovation,” NBC News, December 13, 2007, http://www.nbcnews.com. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006), 286.

1025

Malena Ernman, “Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness,’ ” The Guardian, February 23, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com.

1026

Agence-France Presse, “CO2 Row over Climate Activist Thunberg’s Yacht trip to New York,” France 24, August 18, 2019, https://www.france24.com/en/20190818-co2-row-over-climate-activist-thunberg-s-yacht-trip-to-new-york.

1027

“Energy Use vs. GDP per Capita, 2015,” Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-capita-vs-gdp-per-capita.

1028

Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser, “Primary Energy Consumption by World Region” (table), “Energy,” Our World in Data, July 2018, https://ourworldindata.org/energy.

1029

A 2009 study found that 12–17 percent of China’s energy consumption was embodied in products for export. Ming Xu, Braden Allenby, and Weiqiang Chen, “Energy and Air Emissions Embodied in China-US Trade: Eastbound Assessment Using Adjusted Bilateral Trade Data,” Environmental Science and Technology 43, no. 9 (2009): 3378–84, https://doi.org/10.1021/es803142v. A 1994 study found that 13 percent of the carbon emissions of the world’s six largest economies (the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, France, and Canada) was “embodied” in manufacturing imports. Andrew W. Wyckoff and Joseph M. Roop, “The Embodiment of Carbon in Imports of Manufactured Products: Implications for International Agreements on Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” Energy Policy 22, no. 3 (1994): 187–94, https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-4215(94)90158-9. Per capita energy consumption in the U.S. rose from 227 million BTUs in 1950 to its peak of 350 million BTUs in 2000 and declined to 309 million BTUs in 2018.“Primary Energy Consumption,” U.S. Energy Information Administration, https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_17.pdf.

1030

Zeke Hausfather, “Mapped: The World’s Largest CO2 Importers and Exporters,” Carbon Brief, July 5, 2017, https://www.carbonbrief.org.

1031

Jillian Ambrose and Jon Henley, “European Investment Bank to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Financing,” The Guardian, November 15, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com.

1032

Sebastian Mallaby, The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (New York: Penguin, 2004), 336.

1033

John Briscoe, “Invited Opinion Interview: Two Decades at the Center for World Water Policy,” Water Policy 13, no. 2 (2011): 147–60, https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2010.000.

1034

John Briscoe, “Invited Opinion Interview: Two Decades at the Center for World Water Policy,” Water Policy 13, no. 2 (2011): 147–60, https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2010.000.

1035

John Briscoe, “Invited Opinion Interview: Two Decades at the Center for World Water Policy,” Water Policy 13, no. 2 (2011): 147–60, https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2010.000.

1036

John Briscoe, “Infrastructure First? Water Policy, Wealth, and Well-Being,” Belfer Center, January 28, 2012, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/infrastructure-first-water-policy-wealth-and-well-being.

1037

“Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future,” Annex to U.N. General Assembly document A/42/427, 63 (1987), United Nations, http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm.

1038

“Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future,” Annex to U.N. General Assembly document A/42/427, 63 (1987), United Nations, http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm.

1039

Charles Recknagel, “What Can Norway Teach Other Oil-Rich Countries?” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, November 27, 2014, https://www.rferl.org/a/what-can-norway-teach-other-oil-rich-countries/26713453.html.

1040

José Goldemberg, “Leapfrog Energy Technologies,” Energy Policy 26, no. 10 (1998): 729–41, https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/sed/docs/k4dev/goldemberg_energypolicy1998.pdf.

1041

Mark Malloch Brown, Nitin Desai, Gerald Doucet et al., World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, United Nations Development Programme, 2000, https://www.undp.org/content/dam/aplaws/publication/en/publications/environment-energy/www-ee-library/sustainable-energy/world-energy-assessment-energy-and-the-challenge-of-sustainability/World%20Energy%20Assessment-2000.pdf, 22.

1042

Ibid., 55.

1043

Hinh Dinh (former World Bank economist) in discussion with the author, February 21, 2016.

1044

John Briscoe, “Hydropower for Me but Not for Thee – with Two Postscripts,” Center for Global Development, March 6, 2014, https://www.cgdev.org/blog/hydropower-me-not-thee.

1045

Justin Gillis, “Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind,” New York Times, September 13, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com.

1046

Ricci Shryock, “Rwanda’s Prison System Innovates Energy from Human Waste,” VOA, April 1, 2012, https://www.voanews.com.

1047

Eva Müller, “Forests and Energy: Using Wood to Fuel a Sustainable, Green Economy,” International Institute for Sustainable Development, March 21, 2017, http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/forests-and-energy-using-wood-to-fuel-a-sustainable-green-economy.

1048

Joyashree Roy