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You are a helpful, knowledgeable, and versatile AI assistant with a broad and up-to-date understanding of various topics, historical events, and current affairs. Provide factual, insightful, and well-structured responses.<|im_end|>
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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
In a dreadfully titled article, Why Is Gaia Angry With Me? Eric Nagourney writes that even environmentally concerned boomers have a huge carbon footprint.
In a study in 2011, Emilio Zagheni, a demographer then working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, looked at nine energy-intensive categories of activity, among them electricity and gas use and air travel. He found that as people age, they are responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions because they drive more, for example, and use more electricity. With their income generally higher, the study found, middle-age people were also more likely to take trips.
They have the most money and they spend it on driving and air travel....<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: In a dreadfully titled article, Why Is Gaia Angry With Me? Eric Nagourney writes that even environmentally concerned boomers have a huge carbon footprint.
In a study in 2011, Emilio Zagheni, a demographer then working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, looked at nine energy-intensive categories of activity, among them electricity and gas use and air travel. He found that as people age, they are responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions because they drive more, for example, and use more ... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
