[MCN] Does anyone hate socialists more than the fascists do?

[Lance Olsen]

New York Times March 16, 2020

CRITIC’S PICK

Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did

David Simon’s potent HBO adaptation of the Philip Roth novel imagines a country tilting toward fascism.

<<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/arts/television/the-plot-against-america-review.html? <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/arts/television/the-plot-against-america-review.html?>>>


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The poorest half of the world population is responsible for “only around 10% of total global emissions attributed to individual consumption.”

<<https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf <https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf>>> 

That leaves the rest of us responsible for about 90% of consumption-driven emissions. 

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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018
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“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”

William James (1842 –1910)
Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955

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