<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=""><h2 class="story-heading" style="font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.375rem; font-style: italic; font-family: cheltenham-italic-700, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.01em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/politics/russian-hackers-electric-grid-elections-.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid</a></h2><p class="byline" style="margin: 4px 0px 1px; line-height: 0.75rem; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By DAVID E. SANGER</p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.125rem; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Intelligence and technology officials report there are surprisingly few attempts to disrupt the campaigns of major American political figures.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.125rem; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.125rem; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">********************* Climate & living standards. ***************************<br class=""><br class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and <br class="">human behavior is the root cause. These problems are thus not environmental, <br class="">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="">Science 21 April 2017<br class="">—————————————————————————————————————————————————————<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 was the price <br class="">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=""><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>
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