To look for this the tool was used (see figure 1 above): Show the per capita CO2-emissions plotted against the per capita income (which is widely expected to be an indicator for the living standard, although this might be disputed, too).

Let us have a look only at the highest income group: These are the countries with some 40.000 $ average income (GNI) per person and year (or almost that income). You find these on the right hand near to the orange square. Eight of these countries, which all do have almost the same k$/yr/person are highlighted and the numbers for CO2-emissions per capita 2007 are given in the table given here, too:

almost half of the CO2: some 10 Mg/yr/person, which is far too much, anyhow. The reduced CO2 emissions do not cause any problem for the standard of living in these countries compared to the countries with superhigh-CO2.

GNI per person than all the other countries, the CO2-emissions per capita are down to some 5,4 Mg/yr/person (contemporary global average is some 4,38 Mg/yr/person, not much less, but with a much lower income of some k$/yr/person).

Even form data from the past it is therefore easy to show, that high CO2-emissions are by no means an indicator of a high standard of living \u2013 and not at all required to maintain a high income. This is not caused by product import phenomena, as can easy be seen by the fact that Germany and Japan are still the highest per capita exporting countries in the world. The differences in emissions are caused by efficiency and by energy mix, mainly. Sweden and Switzerland both have very early worked to improve efficiency \u2013 and both have high contributions of renewable energy (water power).

Still, even the emissions in CO2 from Sweden and Switzerland are too high. These should be reduced to some 2 MG/yr/person in average for all mankind \u2013 what means these have to be halved compared to contemporary world emission levels. This is possible: Still the efficiencies can be doubled compared to those already used in average in Sweden and Switzerland \u2013 and the production of renewable energy can be increased.

To look for this the tool was used again (see figure 2): Show the per capita CO2-emissions plotted against the life expectancy (which is widely accepted to be one indicator for the quality of life).