<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 class="iv gt gE" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font class="">These findings confirm what earlier studies had also found, worldwide. 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Nevertheless, he remains hopeful<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 14.3px;"><span class="" style="line-height: 14.3px;"><font class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 14pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(166, 59, 74);"><font class="">By <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4969323" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4969323&source=gmail&ust=1537650605878000&usg=AFQjCNHarADm3AR5ajL4c_LKfjmdRztwSg" class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><b class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(166, 59, 74); text-decoration: none;">Ayelett Shani</span></b></a> </font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 14pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(166, 59, 74);"><font class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-when-it-comes-to-climate-change-the-rich-are-the-culprit-but-they-won-t-pay-the-price-1.6491713" class="">https://www.haaretz.com/<font color="#1155cc" class=""><wbr class="">israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-<wbr class="">when-it-comes-to-climate-<wbr class="">change-the-rich-are-the-<wbr class="">culprit-but-they-won-t-pay-<wbr class="">the-price-1.6491713</font></a></font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 14pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 14pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(166, 59, 74);"><font class="">Excerpt</font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><font class="">A few years ago, we checked the disparity between the lowest and highest percentiles in Israel in three realms: automobile travel, electricity usage and food consumption.<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"> In regard to vehicles and electricity, the rich contribute 27 times as much as the poor to the greenhouse effect.</span> In food it’s only twice as much, simply because there’s a limit to how much food one can consume.</font></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><i class=""><font class="">But that’s obvious, isn’t it? Carbon inequality is simply another derivative of socioeconomic inequality, disparity and polarization. That’s the system.</font></i></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><font class="">The system also encourages those who can afford it to consume ever more without placing obstacles in their way. For example, Israel does not levy a carbon tax, which in the view of some is the only thing that might save us.</font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></div></div></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; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" 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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">===================== </div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">“We don’t need to guard against alarmism, against depression, against anger, against despair when it comes to climate change.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html" class="">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html</a><br class=""><br class=""> =--------------------------------------------------------------===-----------------------------------------------------------------= </div><br class="">“Full of recent references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension.<br class=""><br class="">“One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil’s calculations, but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">humanity to reach a crisis point.”<br class=""><br class="">Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.<br class="">Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil . </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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