answer:People don’t necessarily waste and produce carbon footprint doing leisurely things. It’s pretty well documented that despite the fact that most people on the planet are spending more and consuming more than they ever have in history, we’re no happier. We can be happy without burning fuel. There is a photo documentary that I saw a while back where a photographer went through China and photographed people and managed to situate them such that in a single photograph, you could encapsulate that person, their entire domicile, and all of their belongings. Even middle class Americans are moving into cookie cutter plasterboard six-bedroom suburban mini-mansions are are still running out of space to put their things. And they’re still taking prozac by the bottle. What we should be really focusing is on the amount of waste that happens for, quite literally, no reason. Americans spend ridiculous amounts of time driving—there’s no reason for this. We burn millions of gallons of oil sitting in idle traffic. But many people don’t seem to care. It’s not that there can’t be leisure. The amount of energy we waste and pollution we create partaking in leisurely activities is puny compared to the amount we produce wastefully, without a second thought.