<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=""><h2 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.33; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); margin: 0px 0px 15px; width: 750px; letter-spacing: -0.6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-03/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-size: 14px;" class="">Despairing about the Climate Crisis? Read This.</a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.8; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">By Laurie Mazur, Susanne Moser, Earth Island Journal</p><p class="post-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.65; color: rgb(47, 47, 47); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So we’re having to deal with completely new environmental conditions, and we will be changed by that. Can we imagine that? No. Can we try to imagine that we’re not just clobbering each other over the head or blowing each other up? I can imagine something different.</p><ul class="no-sep clearfix post-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; z-index: 1; padding: 0px; min-height: 18px; list-style: none; overflow: hidden; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="post-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="fa fa-clock-o" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-right: 5px;"></span>October 3, 2019</li></ul><div class=""><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-03/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this/" class="">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-03/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excerpt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"<span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Yeah, that’s a really good question. Certainly, for me, one of the reasons to get out of bed is that we really haven’t tried everything. Having done miserably at communication, having done miserably at policy, having done miserably at market responses to climate change </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">gives us a ton of hope, because</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> we could do</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""> so much </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">better.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 1.875; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The other thing is we’re short-sighted human beings on many counts, and yet our species has managed to build cathedrals that took 300 years apiece. So</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> it’s not like we can’t.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> The future isn’t written yet. It is still open in terms of how it’s going to be shaped.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 1.875; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Still, what we have to realize — and what’s dawning on many people now — is that we have put a lot of CO<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;" class="">2</span> in the atmosphere that won’t just come out tomorrow. That’s why we have to make space for grief, fear, and all the rest of it in public spaces and in our private lives.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 1.875; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We have set so many things in motion that if you tried to control it right now, you couldn’t. We have sailed a ship, and the question is, are we going to keep blowing wind into its sails and sending it off into even more troubled waters, or are we going to do what we can to smooth out the waters, and make sure the opening to the harbor is wide enough for everyone?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 1.875; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There is a ton of space left in terms of what we can do. We can’t just do anything we want, because of the things we have already set in motion, but we can stop making it worse, and there are so many options to deal with the challenges and to make life much less miserable for the vast majority of the world’s people.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 1.875; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">So I think it’s a matter of priorities and values, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">and reckoning with what we have done. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In the public sphere, it’s called political work. In the private sphere, there is deeply personal transformational work that needs to be done.</span></p></div><div class="">End excerpt, full article here <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-03/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this/" class="">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-10-03/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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$$$</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><div class="g" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; font-family: arial, sans-serif; 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="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFSgAMAl6BAgAEAA" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFjAJegQIABAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class=""><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;">We're All the 1 Percent – Foreign Policy</h3><br class=""><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/</cite></div></a><div class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b9" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQ7B0wCXoECAAQAg" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); 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="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQqR8wCXoECAAQAw" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; 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:yapyloaVjVoJ:https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:yapyloaVjVoJ:https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></span></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(112, 117, 122); line-height: 1.54;">Feb 27, 2012 - </span>But the global average is about a fifth of that. So by global standards, America's middle class is also really, really rich. To make it into the richest <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">1</span> percent globally, all you need is an income of around <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">$34,000</span>, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.</span></div><div data-base-uri="/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737" id="ed_3" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQ2Z0BMAl6BAgAEAY" class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: arial, sans-serif; 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="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFSgAMAp6BAgCEAA" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFjAKegQIAhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class=""><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;">Half the world's richest 1% live in the United States - Jan. 4, 2012</h3><br class=""><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm</cite></div></a><div class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b10" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQ7B0wCnoECAIQAg" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); 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="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQqR8wCnoECAIQAw" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; 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:hBEabNzxQO8J:https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hBEabNzxQO8J:https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm%2B%26cd%3D11%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQIDAKegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></span></div><div class="s" style="font-size: 14px; max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(112, 117, 122); line-height: 1.54;">Jan 4, 2012 - </span>The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world's rich people.<wbr class=""> It only takes <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">$34,000</span> a year, after taxes, to be among the richest <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">1</span>% in the world.<wbr class=""> ... The rest are mainly scattered throughout Europe, Latin America and a few Asian countries.</span></div><div class="s" style="font-size: 14px; max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">Sonja van Renssen.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class="">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;" class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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