<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 style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEKIiSgOHPLfbHGuQzrA6LGYqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4uzwCjCF3bsCMIrOrwM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">U.S. Consumers Are the Economy's Best Hope Against Recession<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">If the U.S. economy manages to sustain its record-breaking expansion into 2020, it will be because U.S. consumers didn't lose their nerve despite all the talk of ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMOLs8Aowhd27Ag?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Bloomberg<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">5 hours ago</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL9IBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Why We Should Stop Celebrating Consumerism</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Let's continue to admire success. But it is time to stop celebrating consumerism. Our society is longing for people who can tell the difference.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Forbes magazine</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">The Church of Stop Shopping doesn't pull punches on its ...</a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a" class="">Nov 27, 2015 - </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">Reverend Billy</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Talen and his group are returning to New York City this Black Friday to deliver a simple message to Americans: resist </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #121212" class="">consumerism</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" 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></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies.</span></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Nature Climate Change MAY 2018 Published online: 27 April 2018 </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class=""> </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Naomi Klein</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" class="">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and human behavior is the root cause.”</span></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275" class="">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The American way of life is not negotiable.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">George H. W. Bush. 1992</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</span></div></span></div>
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