<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article202170119.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjA1ODg0MzI1ODQwNDYzMTE1NDIaZjJjZDY0YjQwNWYzNWNhYzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGPgEy4ldkY0BiKcTN3Oy7LNlsEvQ" class=""><span style="color: rgb(52, 102, 232); text-decoration: none;" class="">Horry County ready to force developers to pay for the <b class="">cost of growth</b></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 14px;" class="">Myrtle Beach Sun News<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-size: 14px;" class="">Horry County staff could start drafting impact fee legislation during the next fiscal year as part of an effort to make developers pay for the <b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">cost of growth</font></b>, according to council Chair Mark Lazarus. And Horry County is growing. Its population is projected to <b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">increase by more than 100,000 people by 2040.</font></b></span></p><div class=""><a href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article202170119.html" class="">http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article202170119.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>********************* Climate & living standards. ***************************</div><div><br class="">“The ecological <b class="">systems upon which humans rely for life support </b>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="">—————————————————————————————————————————————————————</div><div><br class="">“Consumer expectations of <b class="">ever-higher living standards</b> were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. 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></div></body></html>