The reason seems simple for why wealthy men do the least work on climate change issues.

…Amanda Clayton, a University of California political scientist found during her research on the topic, “the gender gap grows as a function of country wealth.”

As countries get richer, it is more likely that women will be the ones expressing greater concern about climate change. But not because they are suddenly more concerned.

“It’s actually that men tend to decrease their concern about climate change as countries become wealthier,” Clayton said. “The growing gender gap is actually men’s growing skepticism.”

The wealth creates male disassociation from their environment. The more money they have, the more their upbringing kicks in to distance themselves and care less about others. If they were raised differently, to give as well as to take, they wouldn’t confuse extraction for isolation with success.