<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The whole complex tale of climate change can be summarized in a four-letter word: Heat</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat fuels hurricanes</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat fuels fires</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat deprives oceans, lakes, rivers of oxygen, and so deprives fish of oxygen</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat kills trees even without help from beetle or fire</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat wilts food crops</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Heat kills across the animal kingdom, from dairy cow to desert lizard</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Climate itself has always been temperature-controlled. This time around it’s being forced into change by heat, and this time around the onus is on us.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">********************* Climate & living standards. ***************************</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause. <br class="">These problems are thus not environmental, but rather related to how humans meet their needs and wants in disruptive ways.”<br class=""> <br class="">Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger<br class="">Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017<br class="">—————————————————————————————————————————————————————<br class="">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, <br class="">…. Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. <br class=""><br class="">"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt <br class="">was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”<br class=""><br class="">Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015<br class=""><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" class="">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt</a><br class="">======================================<br class="">“The American way of life is not negotiable.”<br class=""><br class="">George H. W. Bush. 1992<br class="">=======================================================<br class="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior that is at the annihilating edge."<br class=""><br class="">R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. <br class="">1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</div></div>
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