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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Adam Hudson,
Truthout:</b> "Richmond, California, is creeping toward
gentrification: Rich investors and developers are starting to buy up
properties as the community grapples with how best to prevent longtime
renters from being forced out. The city is a key example of the early
stages of gentrification, often ignored by the
media."</font></div>
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>http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31926-early-stage-gentrification-<span
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"But we need to
be clear, the large-scale predicament and the emergent socio-economic
stresses that we are beginning to experience has very little to with
fraud, corruption and the greed of a tiny few. It has a lot to do with
our human civilization running into limits."</font><font
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>http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-03-25/anger-complicity-in-a-t<span
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</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Contrary
to popular belief,<i> The Limits to Growth</i> scenarios by
the team of analysts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
did not predict world collapse by the end of the 20th century. This
paper focuses on a comparison of recently collated historical data for
1970-2000 with scenarios presented in the<i> Limits to
Growth</i>. The analysis shows that 30 years of historical data
compare favorably with key features of a business-as-usual scenario
called the 'standard run' scenario, which results in collapse of the
global system midway through the 21st century."<br>
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Graham M. Turner. A comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 years
of reality.<i> </i></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Global
Environmental Change</i> 18 (2008) 397- 411<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Consumer
expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more
lenient and readily available bank lending, the subsequent booms in
construction and property market sectors, .... Social status and
identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular
with the concept of luxury. Identifying oneself with the good life
meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic
needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a
hedonistic consumer culture."<br>
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Kenneth Dyson.The Morality of Debt.<br>
<i>Foreign Affairs.</i> May 3, 2015</font></div>
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