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"Living standards" are a fairly bogus concept. You could argue that if you are wasteful - wash at high temperatures, boil 2 litres of water for 1 cup of tea, abjectly refuse to recycle, drive to the toilet, etc. then your living standards are lower than someone who is considerate about what they use.
I think the problem is that people think they will have to sacrifice their 'living standards' to be 'greener'. When you actually look at it, a lot of the things that are wasteful such as driving, excessive use of automated appliances, cycling with gears [ ;) ], that are tantamount to having high living standards, are just time saving devices pandering to our own excessive laziness as 21st century human beings.
In my opinion, aside from obvious things like sanitation, clean food, being dry, being entertained in some form, having a 'high living standard' equates to 'being exceptionally lazy'.