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Aldous Huxley. Things may come to ..</font><font color="#545454" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">.</font></span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="45" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQFQgtKAEwAQ" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69a" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class="">Shop Less, Save More (Planet) – Center for Biological Diversity ...</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18px;"><div class="f _SWb kv" style="font-size: small; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="_Rm" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://medium.com/center-for-biological.../shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69" class="">https://medium.com/center-for-biological.../shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69</a>...</cite><div class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="_Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&q=%22spending+the+planet%22&oq=%22spending+the+planet%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4859.9443.0.10963.2.2.0.0.0.0.98.176.2.2.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.97...33i22i29i30k1.r6lApznJzOQ#" id="am-b1" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQ7B0ILzAB" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;"></span></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQqR8IMDAB" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I7skEbSkoUgJ:https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69a+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Aug 8, 2016 - </span>It reminds us what we're fighting for, and what we have to lose if we keep <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">spending the planet's</span> resources like the one percent. And it's good for ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="51" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQFQgzKAIwAg" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class="">Innovation, globalisation and the environment - OECD Observer</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f _SWb kv" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html" class="">http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html</a><div class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQqR8INjAC" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G3QD3vU4ALgJ:oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#545454" class="">While gains in well-being are beyond question, the main message is that we are </font><font color="#6a6a6a" class=""><b class="">spending the planet’ s</b></font><font color="#545454" class="">natural capital in unsustainable ways.However, recoiling ...</font></span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns...”<br class=""><br class="">From the Executive Summary, WWF: China Ecological Footprint: Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and sustainability.</div><div>———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</div><div>"People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more -- ever more."</div><br class="">Donella Meadows. Just So Much And No More. Yes magazine June 30, 2001<br class=""><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437" class="">http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the many useful services that they have rendered has been that of dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for materials of all kinds.”<br class=""><br class="">“But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total silence.”<br class=""><br class="">John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”<br class="">In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958<br class=""><div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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